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Engaging South Asian religions : boundaries, appropriations, and resistances /

Focusing on boundaries, appropriations, and resistances involved in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial period in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It pays particular attention to contemporary controversies surrounding the study of Sout...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schmalz, Mathew N., 1964-, Gottschalk, Peter, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.
Colección:SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A science of defining boundaries : classification, categorization, and the census of India / Peter Gottschalk
  • The repetition of past imperialisms : Hegel, historical difference, and the theorization of Indic religions / Arvind Mandair
  • Beyond national borders and religious boundaries : Muslim and Hindu veneration of Bonbibi / Sufia Uddin
  • Boundaries and appropriations in North Indian charismatic Catholicism / Mathew N. Schmalz
  • The corpse and cult of St. Francis Xavier, 1552-1623 / William R. Pinch
  • Sati or female supremacy? : feminist appropriations of Gotami's Parinirvana / Liz Wilson
  • Resisting my attackers, resisting my defenders : representing the Shivaji narratives / James W. Laine
  • Resisting assimilation : encounters with a small Islamic sect in contemporary Pakistan / Shahzad Bashir
  • Climbing through paradigms / Paul B. Courtright
  • Afterword : scandals, scholars, subjects / Saurabh Dube
  • Response 1 : a phantasmatic reading / Arvind Mandair
  • Response 2 : legend versus myth / Sufia Uddin
  • Response 3 : staying with and thinking through / Mathew N. Schmalz.