Re-Imagining South Asian Religions: Essays in Honour of Professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt

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.

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1. VerfasserIn: Singh, Pashaura (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Hawley, Michael (MitwirkendeR)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden BRILL 2012
In:Jahr: 2012
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Numen Book Ser. v.141
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Südasien / Religion
weitere Schlagwörter:B South Asia ; Religion
B Aufsatzsammlung
B History ; South Asia
B Festschrift
B Electronic books
B Konferenzschrift
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Erscheint auch als: 9789004242364
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Intro -- Contents -- 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: Anekāntavāda as a Counter-anthropologising Strategy -- Rewriting the Hindu Traditions from Global Perspectives -- Pedagogy in the Janam-sakhis: 'Teaching Texts' Moving Past Old Categories -- Part III 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 Writing of Lawren Harris -- Re-imagining Hindu Beginnings in Canada -- The Indianness of Christianity: The Task of Re-imagination -- M. K. Gandhi and the Sikhs: Violence, Religious Identity, and Competing Modernities -- Index.
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ISBN:9004242376