Religion And Identity In South Asia And Beyond
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Author |
: Steven E. Lindquist |
Publisher |
: Anthem Press |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2013-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783080670 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783080671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond by : Steven E. Lindquist
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. Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the ascetic and legal traditions of India, but his work as both a researcher and a teacher extends beyond early Indian religion and literature. ‘Religion and Identity and South Asia and Beyond’ is a testament to that influence. The contributions in this volume, many by former students of Olivelle, are committed to linguistic and historical rigor, combined with sensitivity to how the study of Asia has been changing over the last several decades.
Author |
: David Gilmartin |
Publisher |
: Orange Grove Texts Plus |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1616101180 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781616101183 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Turk and Hindu by : David Gilmartin
Author |
: James Ponniah |
Publisher |
: Fortress Press |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2020-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506439938 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1506439934 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia by : James Ponniah
Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement. It considers how these processes are reflected in rituals, beliefs and social practices. It explores the processes by which "home" may be constructed and how relocations often result in either the replication or rejection of traditional homes and identities. Ponniah examines the various contestations surrounding the categories of "home" and "religion," including interfaith families, urban spaces, and sacred places.
Author |
: Mushirul Hasan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 540 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025112512 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islam, Communities and the Nation by : Mushirul Hasan
Essays Collected In The Volume Examine The Problem Of Muslim Identity Particularly In Plural Societies.Some Of The Topics Covered Are: Sectarian Strife In Lucknow, Kashmiri Muslims, Tablighis, Bengali Muslims, Bosnian Tangle, Partition`S Biharis, Meo Identity, Nepali Muslims, Women, Legal Reforms And Muslim Identity, Religion In Transcaucasia, Muslim Identity In Balkans, Biharis In Bangladesh, Islamic Militancy In Nwfp, Muslim Minority In Sri Lanka, Divide And Quit In Bosnia And Mohd. Ali`S Quest For Identity In Colonial India.
Author |
: David Gilmartin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813017815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813017815 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Turk and Hindu by : David Gilmartin
"[Sets] the stage for a rewriting of nearly a thousand years of history to create new understandings of the nature of cultural encounters. . . . The volume breaks free from the polemics of present-day politics and historicist distortions that have seeped into most standard texts."--David Lelyveld, Cornell University This collection challenges the popular presumption that Muslims and Hindus are irreconcilably different groups, inevitably conflicting with each other. Invoking a new vocabulary that depicts a neglected substratum of Muslim-Hindu commonality, the contributors demonstrate how Indic and Islamicate world views overlap and often converge in the premodern history of South Asia. Contents Part 1: Literary Genres, Architectural Forms, and Identities 1. Alternate Structures of Authority: Satya Pir on the Frontiers of Bengal, by Tony K. Stewart 2. Beyond Turk and Hindu: Crossing the Boundaries in Indo-Muslim Romance, by Christopher Shackle 3. Religious Vocabulary and Regional Identity: A Study of the Tamil Cirappuranam, by Vasudha Narayanan 4. Admiring the Works of the Ancients: The Ellora Temples as Viewed by Indo-Muslim Authors, by Carl W. Ernst 5. Mapping Hindu-Muslim Identities through the Architecture of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur, by Catherine B. Asher Part 2: Sufism, Biographies, and Religious Dissent 6. Indo-Persian Tazkiras as Memorative Communications, by Marcia K. Hermansen and Bruce B. Lawrence 7. The "Naqshbandi Reaction" Reconsidered, by David W. Damrel 8. Real Men and False Men at the Court of Akbar: The Majalis of Shaykh Mustafa Gujarati, by Derryl N. MacLean Part 3: The State, Patronage, and Political Order 9. Sharia and Governance in Indo-Islamic Context, by Muzaffar Alam 10. Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States, by Richard M. Eaton 11. The Story of Prataparudra: Hindu Historiography on the Deccan Frontier, by Cynthia Talbot 12. Harihara, Bukka, and the Sultan: The Delhi Sultanate in the Political Imagination of Vijayanagara, by Phillip B. Wagoner 13. Maratha Patronage of Muslim Institutions in Burhanpur and Khandesh, by Stewart Gordon David Gilmartin, professor of history at North Carolina State University, is the author of Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan. Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of Religion at Duke University, is the author of Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence and Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age, which received the 1990 prize for excellence in religious studies awarded by the American Academy of Religion.
Author |
: John Hinnells |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 526 |
Release |
: 2007-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134192182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134192185 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Violence in South Asia by : John Hinnells
Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance? Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, this book explores the debate that has emerged in the context of secular modernity about whether religion is a primary cause of social division, conflict and war, or whether this is simply a distortion of the ‘true’ significance of religion and that if properly followed it promotes peace, harmony, goodwill and social cohesion. Focusing on how this debate is played out in the South Asian context, the book engages with issues relating to religion and violence in both its classical and contemporary formations. The collection is designed to look beyond the stereotypical images and idealized portrayals of the peaceful South Asian religious traditions (especially Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sufi), which can occlude their own violent histories and to analyze the diverse attitudes towards, and manifestations of violence within the major religious traditions of South Asia. Divided into three sections, the book also discusses globalization and the theoretical issues that inform contemporary discussions of the relationship between religion and violence.
Author |
: Sumit Guha |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2013-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004254855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004254854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Caste by : Sumit Guha
'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.
Author |
: Kelly Pemberton |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2009-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135904777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135904774 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia by : Kelly Pemberton
This work focuses on processes of articulating identity. The notions of "shared idioms" and "sacred symbols" shaping this volume suggest both a search for common ground and boundary-drawing processes. Individual chapters locate "sites" of these modes and the conditions that engender them, problematizing the truth-claims of unitary markers of identity.
Author |
: Kelly Pemberton |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2009-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135904760 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135904766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia by : Kelly Pemberton
How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. Contributors to this volume are particularly interested in how alternative forms of belonging and religious imaginations in South Asia are articulated in the light of normative, authoritative, and exclusive claims upon the representation of identities. Building upon new and extensive historiographical and ethnographical data, the book challenges clear-cut categorizations of group identity and points to the complex historical and contemporary relationships between different groups, organizations, in part by investigating the discursive formations that are often subsumed under binary distinctions of dominant/subaltern, Hindu/Muslim or orthodox/heterodox. In this respect, the book offers a theoretical contribution beyond South Asia Studies by highlighting a need for a new interdisciplinary effort in rethinking notions of identity, ethnicity, and religion.
Author |
: Rajesh Rai |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351551595 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351551590 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora by : Rajesh Rai
Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.