Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

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Personen und Körperschaften:	Fisher, Elaine (auth)
Titel:	Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
veröffentlicht:	Oakland, California University of California Press 2017
Schlagwörter:	History Asian History Social And Cultural History Religion And Beliefs History Of Religion India Hinduism Sectarianism Public Sphere Hindu Early Modern Religious Studies Śaiva Madurai Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī Sanskrit Shaivism Shiva Smarta Tradition South India Vedas
Quelle:	DOAB Directory of Open Access Books
Anmerkungen:	English

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Zusammenfassung:	In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion’s role in public life in India through the present day.
Umfang:	1 electronic resource (300 p.)
ISBN:	luminos.24 9780520966291;9780520966291;9780520966291
Zugang:	Open Access
Anmerkungen:	English