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Re-imagining South Asian religions : essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.

Contributor(s): Series: Studies in the history of religions ; v. 141.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 302 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004242371
  • 9004242376
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Re-imagining South Asian religions.DDC classification:
  • 200.954
LOC classification:
  • BL1055 .R415 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Preface and Introduction: Re-imagining South Asian Religions; Part I Reflections on the Field; Traditional Sanskrit and Modern Scholarship:A Personal Journey; A Modest Retrospective; Part II New Orientations, Globalization, and Pedagogy; Re-Imagining Sikhi ('Sikhness') in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Paradigm Shift in Sikh Studies; The Politics of Perspectivalism: Anekāntavādaas a Counter-anthropologising Strategy; Rewriting the Hindu Traditions from Global Perspectives.
Pedagogyin the Janam-sakhis: 'Teaching Texts' Moving Past Old CategoriesPartIII Performance and Memory; Re-imagining Religious History through Women's Song Performance at the Kāmākhyā Temple Site; Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Performance: Ritual Practice and Cultural Preservation in the Tibetan Diaspora; 'Performance' and 'Lived Religion' Approaches as New Ways of 'Re-imagining' Sikh Studies; Part IV History, Encounter, and Exchange; Re-Imagining Theosophy through Canadian Art: Theosophical Influences on the Painting and Writingof Lawren Harris; Re-imagining Hindu Beginnings in Canada.
The Indianness of Christianity: The Task of Re-imaginationM. K. Gandhi and the Sikhs: Violence, Religious Identity, andCompeting Modernities; Index.
Summary: Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences.
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Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Preface and Introduction: Re-imagining South Asian Religions; Part I Reflections on the Field; Traditional Sanskrit and Modern Scholarship:A Personal Journey; A Modest Retrospective; Part II New Orientations, Globalization, and Pedagogy; Re-Imagining Sikhi ('Sikhness') in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Paradigm Shift in Sikh Studies; The Politics of Perspectivalism: Anekāntavādaas a Counter-anthropologising Strategy; Rewriting the Hindu Traditions from Global Perspectives.

Pedagogyin the Janam-sakhis: 'Teaching Texts' Moving Past Old CategoriesPartIII Performance and Memory; Re-imagining Religious History through Women's Song Performance at the Kāmākhyā Temple Site; Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Performance: Ritual Practice and Cultural Preservation in the Tibetan Diaspora; 'Performance' and 'Lived Religion' Approaches as New Ways of 'Re-imagining' Sikh Studies; Part IV History, Encounter, and Exchange; Re-Imagining Theosophy through Canadian Art: Theosophical Influences on the Painting and Writingof Lawren Harris; Re-imagining Hindu Beginnings in Canada.

The Indianness of Christianity: The Task of Re-imaginationM. K. Gandhi and the Sikhs: Violence, Religious Identity, andCompeting Modernities; Index.

Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences.

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