Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hindu Sectarianism: Difference in Unity -- 2. "Just Like Kālidāsa": The Making of the Smārta-Śaiva Community of South India -- 3. Public Philology: Constructing Sectarian Identities in Early Modern South India -- 4. The Langu...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
University of Californiarnia Press
[2017]
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | South Asia Across the Disciplines
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| Further subjects: | B
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B pluralism B literary analysis B religious pluralism B Hinduism (India, South) B british colony B india B public space B scholarly B tamil B eastern religion B academic B colonial B colonialism B sectarianism B world religion B modernity B religious studies B telegu B unification B Religious Pluralism (India, South) B religion B RELIGION / Hinduism / History B hinduism B hindu B luminos B public life B sanskrit B post colonial B precolonial B religious identity |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hindu Sectarianism: Difference in Unity -- 2. "Just Like Kālidāsa": The Making of the Smārta-Śaiva Community of South India -- 3. Public Philology: Constructing Sectarian Identities in Early Modern South India -- 4. The Language Games of Śiva: Mapping Text and Space in Public Religious Culture -- Conclusion: A Prehistory of Hindu Pluralism -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term "sectarianism," Fisher's work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 0520966295 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/9780520966291 |