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Imagining Hinduism
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Author : Sharada Sugirtharajah
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-02-24
Imagining Hinduism written by Sharada Sugirtharajah and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-24 with Religion categories.
Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists 'discovered' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu 'golden age', the West has nurtured a complex and ambivalent fascination with Hinduism, ranging from romantic admiration to ridicule. At the same time, Hindu discourse has drawn upon Orientalist representations in order to redefine Hindu identity. As the first comprehensive work to bring postcolonial critique to the study of Hinduism, this is essential reading for those seeking a full understanding of Hinduism.
Imagining Religious Communities
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Author : Jennifer B. Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-05
Imagining Religious Communities written by Jennifer B. Saunders and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.
Imagining Religious Communities
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Author : Jennifer B. Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Imagining Religious Communities written by Jennifer B. Saunders and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Religion categories.
Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.
Imagining India
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Author : Ronald B. Inden
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2000
Imagining India written by Ronald B. Inden and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with East and West categories.
How does the Western world represent India? In this controversial and widely-praised book, the author argues that the West's major depictions of India have deprived Indians of their capacity to rule thir own world.
The Artful Universe
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Author : William K. Mahony
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Artful Universe written by William K. Mahony and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Religion categories.
Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.
Re Imagining South Asian Religions
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Author : Pashaura Singh
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-12-07
Re Imagining South Asian Religions written by Pashaura Singh and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-07 with Religion categories.
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.
Imagined Hinduism
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Author : Geoffrey A Oddie
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 2006-04-14
Imagined Hinduism written by Geoffrey A Oddie and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-14 with Religion categories.
This book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using missionary writings, the author shows how the early conservative view of Hinduism as pagan or heathen grew into the dominant paradigm of Hinduism as a unitary, brahman-controlled system, ridden with idolatry, ritualism, superstition, and sexual license. The last few chapters examine the impact of these representations of Hinduism in India and the West. This book is noteworthy for its recognition of the role of 'imagination' and the concept of the 'dominant paradigm'.
Imagining India
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Author : Ronald Inden
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000
Imagining India written by Ronald Inden and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
This edition contains a new introduction.
Masculinity Asceticism Hinduism
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Author : Chandrima Chakraborty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Masculinity Asceticism Hinduism written by Chandrima Chakraborty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Hinduism and politics categories.
Studies on the works of Bankim Chandra Chatterji, Rabindranath Tagore, and Mahatma Gandhi.
The Hindu Vision
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Author : Anantanand Rambachan
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Release Date : 1992
The Hindu Vision written by Anantanand Rambachan and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Religion categories.
This is a discerning and lucid articulation of Hindu belief and practice. Professor Rambachan combines insight born out of his own devotion with mastery of relevant texts and traditions to create a gem of a book. He describes worship in its familial and temple contexts, holding before the reader the aim of worship as unbroken awareness of God in all of life. This awareness intensifies and expands the religious and moral meaning of life, death, and human action, Dharma, moksa and rebirth, and other classical Hindu teachings, are set forth with an elegance of style and economy of words. Rambachan is especially attentive to common misunderstandings of Hindu teachings. He shows how Hinduism avoids determinism, encourages freedom from ignorance and for joyful celebration of life, and issues forth in compassionate concern for others. The final chapter, 'A Hindu Looks at Jesus', will be of special value for Hindu-Christian dialogue. It is difficult to imagine a more accessible, concise and helpful introduction to the profound themes of Hinduism.