04376cam a2200853Ka 4500 ocn733555318 OCoLC 20200709055403.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110629s2006 nju ob 001 0 eng d 2004062907 N$T eng pn N$T E7B OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCF NLGGC OCLCQ HEBIS OCLCO P@U YDXCP EBLCP COO OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ AZK 730151764 857637866 961509873 962576196 9781400826858 (electronic bk.) 1400826853 (electronic bk.) 0691118272 0691118280 9780691118277 9780691118284 370817 (N$T) (OCoLC)733555318 (OCoLC)730151764 (OCoLC)857637866 (OCoLC)961509873 (OCoLC)962576196 22573/cttxdkt JSTOR az----- PE3502.G87 A73 2006eb LAN 009000 bisacsh SOC039000 bisacsh LIT008000 bisacsh SOC002000 bisacsh 420/.954 22 MAIN Aravamudan, Srinivas. Guru English : South Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language / Srinivas Aravamudan. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006. 1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Bibliography Translation/transnation Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-311) and index. Print version record. Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Theolinguistics: Orientalists, Brahmos, Vedantins, and Yogis; Chapter Two From Indian Romanticism to Guru Literature; Chapter Three Theosophistries; Chapter Four The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural; Chapter Five Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism; Chapter Six New Age Enchantments; Afterword; Notes; Index. Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shu. Master record variable field(s) change: 650 English language South Asia Religious aspects. English language Social aspects South Asia. South Asia Religion Study and teaching. Religion and culture. Cosmopolitanism India. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics General. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology of Religion. bisacsh Cosmopolitanism. fast (OCoLC)fst00880635 English language Religious aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00911568 English language Social aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00911649 Religion and culture. fast (OCoLC)fst01093823 Religion Study and teaching. fast (OCoLC)fst01093807 India. fast (OCoLC)fst01210276 South Asia. fast (OCoLC)fst01244520 Religion gnd (DE-588)4049396-9 Religion. swd Südasien. swd Englisch. swd Electronic books. Print version: Aravamudan, Srinivas. Guru English. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 0691118272 (DLC) 2004062907 (OCoLC)57391872 Translation/transnation. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=370817 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL713604 ebrary EBRY ebr10477110 EBSCOhost EBSC 370817 Project MUSE MUSE muse36390 YBP Library Services YANK 6918492 92 N$T 50447 50447