TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aravamudan,Srinivas
TI  - Guru English: South Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language 
T2  - Translation/transnation
SN  - 9781400826858
AV  - PE3502.G87 A73 2006eb
U1  - 420/.954 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Religion and culture
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - India
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - gnd
KW  - swd
KW  - Südasien
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-311) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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