Religion and identity in South Asia and beyond: essays in honor of Patrick Olivelle

This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.

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Subtitles:Religion & Identity in South Asia & Beyond
其他作者: Olivelle, Patrick 1942- (Editor) ; Lindquist, Steven E. (Editor)
格式: 電子 圖書
語言:English
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出版: London Anthem Press 2011.
In:Year: 2011
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Südasien / 宗教身份
Further subjects:B Aufsatzsammlung
B Group identity--South Asia
B Religion and literature South Asia
B Religion and sociology South Asia
B Religion and sociology (South Asia)
B Religion and sociology ; South Asia
B South Asia Civilization
B South Asia--Religion
B Religion and literature (South Asia)
B South Asia ; Religion
B Group identity South Asia
B South Asia 宗教
B Religion and literature ; South Asia
B South Asia 宗教
B South Asia--Civilization
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總結:This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
Introduction: Patrick Olivelle and indology; major publications of Patrick Olivelle -- Word, text, context. The elusive snātaka / Timothy Lubin -- Who gets to live forever in ancient India? Rethinking āyus ("life") in the Rgveda / Jarrod L. Whitaker -- One Yājn̋avalkya ... two? on the (questionable) historicity of a literary figure / Steven E. Lindquist -- A theologian in a South Indian kingdom: the historical context of the Jīvanmuktiviveka of Vidyāranya / Robert A Goodding -- The rhetoric of secrecy in the Upaniṣads / Brian Black -- Custom and law. Punishing puns: etymology as linguistic ideology in Hindu and British traditions / Robert A. Yelle -- Matrilineal adoption, inheritance law, and rites for the dead among Hindus in medieval Kerala / Donald R. Davis Jr. -- Punishing in public: imposing moral self-dominance in normative Sanskrit sources / Federico Squarcini -- Buddhists and jains as selves and others / How the Buddha dealt with non-Buddhists / Olivers Freigerger -- Sacrifice and asceticism in early Mahāyāna Buddhism / Daniel Boucher -- Text and image: identifying Ellora's Jain Deities / Lisa N Owen -- (Re)considering geographical and conceptual boundaries. Spiritual practice and corporate identity in medieval Sufi communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India: the Khalvatī/'Ishqī/Shattārī continuum / Devin DeWeese -- Digesting the sacrifices: ritual internalization in Jewish, Hindu, and Manichaean traditions / Jason BeDuhn -- The Hindutva underground: Hindu nationalism and the Indian National Congress in late Colonial and Early postcolonial India / Manu Bhagavan -- Marking the boundaries of a new literary identity: the assertion of 'Dalit Consciousness' in Dalit literary criticism / Laura R. Brueck -- Young Śvetaketu in America: learning to be Hindu in the Diaspora
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ISBN:0857288113