Re-imagining South Asian religions : essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt /
edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- 1 online resource (xxv, 302 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Numen book series, studies in the history of religions ; v. 141 .
- Studies in the history of religions ; v. 141. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.