Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism considers religious reading through a study of the Pushtimarg, a Hindu community whose devotional practices and community identity have developed in close relationship to a genre of prose hagiography written during the 17th century. Combini...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Aar Religion in Translation Ser.
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| Further subjects: | B
Hindu literature-History and criticism
B Hindu literature B Hinduism B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780197648599 |
| Summary: | Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism considers religious reading through a study of the Pushtimarg, a Hindu community whose devotional practices and community identity have developed in close relationship to a genre of prose hagiography written during the 17th century. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and close readings of Indian language texts, each chapter of the book showcases various ways in which devotees have performatively read and interpreted these hagiographies in ways that help them navigate between their roles as devotional caretakers of the Hindu deity Krishna and their social and familial obligations in the modern world. Cover -- Series -- Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: An Ethnography of Reading -- 1. Dialogical Reading: The Pushtimarg's Performative Canon -- 2. Commentarial Reading: Historicizing Hagiography and Making Modern Readers -- 3. Public Reading: Debating Text, Temple, and Religious Authority -- 4. Community Reading: Learning Affective Piety -- 5. Women's Reading: Navigating Family, Gender, and Devotion -- Conclusion: Religious Reading and Everyday Lives -- Appendix: Select Translations of Key Texts -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0197648614 |