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Re-imagining South Asian religions : essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt
Title
Re-imagining South Asian religions : essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.
ISBN
9789004242364 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004242368 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004242371 (e-book)
9004242376 (e-book)
9789004242371 (e-book)
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Physical Description
xxv, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 29, 2014
Series
Numen book series, studies in the history of religions ; volume 141
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface and introduction: re-imaging South Asian religions / Pashura Singh and Michael Hawley
Part 1. Reflections on the field
Traditional Sanskrit and modern scholarship: a personal journey / Harold G. Coward
A modest retrospective / Ronald W. Neufeldt
Part 2. New orientations, globalization, and pedagogy
Re-imagining Sikhi ('Sikhness') in the Twenty-first century: Toward a paradigm shift in Sikh studies / Pashaura Singh
The politics of perspectivalism: Anekāntavāda as a counter-anthropologising strategy / Tinu Ruparell
Rewriiting the Hindu traditions from global perspectives / Vasudha Narayanan
Pedagogy in the Janam-sakhis: 'Teaching texts' moving past old categories / Toby Braden Johnson
Part III. Performance and memory
Re-imagining religious history through women's song performance at the Kāmākhyā Temple site / Patricia A. Dold
Tibetan Buddhist monastic performance: ritual practice and cultural preservation in the Tibetan diaspora / Sarah F. Haynes
'Performance' and 'lived religion' approaches as new ways of 're-imagining' Sikh studies / Charles M. Townsend
Part IV. History, encounter, and exchange
Re-imagining theosophy through Canadian art: Indian theosophical influences on the painting and writing of Lawren Harris
Re-imagining Hindu beginnings in Canada / Paul Younger
The Indianness of Christianity: the task of re-imagination / Dyron B. Daughrity
M.K. Gandhi and the Sikhs: violence, religious identity, and competing modernities / Michael Hawley.
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