Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Jadunathjee Brizrattanjee (Maharaj.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bhattia Conspiracy Case, 1862
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: EMILIA. BACHRACH
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197648592
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Get Book Here

Book Description
Religious texts are not stable objects, passed down unchanged through generations. The way in which religious communities receive their scriptures changes over time and in different social contexts. This book considers religious reading through a study of the Pushtimarg, a Hindu community whose devotional practices and community identity have developed in close relationship with Vārtā Sāhitya (Chronicle Literature), a genre of Hindi prose hagiography written during the 17th century. Through hagiographies that narrate the relationships between the deity Krishna and the Pushtimarg's early leaders and their disciples, these hagiographies provide community history, theology, vicarious epiphany, and models of devotion. While steeped in the social world of early-modern north India, these texts have continued to be immensely popular among generations of modern devotees, whose techniques of reading and exegesis allow them to maintain the narratives as primary guides for devotional living in Gujarat-the western state of India where the Pushtimarg thrives today. Combining ethnographic fieldwork with close readings of Hindi and Gujarati texts, the book examines how members of the community engage with the hagiographies through recitation and dialogue in temples and homes, through commentary and translation in print publications and on the Internet, and even through debates in courts of law. The book argues that these acts of reading inform and are informed by both intimate negotiations of the family and the self, and also by politically potent disputes over matters such as temple governance. By studying the texts themselves, as well as the social contexts of their reading, Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism provides a distinct example of how changing class, regional, and gender identities continue to shape interpretations of a scriptural canon, and how, in turn, these interpretations influence ongoing projects of self and community fashioning.

Author: Brannon Ingram
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317234294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Get Book Here

Book Description
In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term. To that end, this book surveys the modern Indian ‘public’ across multiple historical contexts and sites, with contributions from leading scholars of South Asia in anthropology, history, literary studies and religious studies. As a whole, this volume highlights the complex genealogies of the public in the Indian subcontinent during the colonial and postcolonial eras, showing in particular how British notions of ‘the public’ intersected with South Asian forms of publicity. Two principal methods or approaches—the genealogical and the typological—have characterised this scholarship. This book suggests, more in the mode of genealogy, that the category of the public has been closely linked to the sub-continental history of political liberalism. Also discussed is how the studies collected in this volume challenge some of liberalism’s key presuppositions about the public and its relationship to law and religion.

Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Imperial Library, Calcutta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 570

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Harvard Law School. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1262

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: J. Barton Scott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636867X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Get Book Here

Book Description
Spiritual Despots by historian of religion J. Barton Scott zeroes in on the quaint term "priestcraft" to track anticlerical polemics in Britain and South Asia during the colonial period. Scott's aim is to show how anticlerical rhetoric spread through the colonies alongside ideas about modern secular subjectivity. Through close readings of texts in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, he shows in compelling detail how the critique of priestly conspiracy gave rise to a new ideal of the self-disciplining subject and a vision of modern Hinduism that was based on unmediated personal experience and self-regulation rather than priestly tutelary power. Spiritual Despots offers a new perspective on what some scholars have called "Protestant Hinduism," and, more broadly, contributes to the emerging field of "post-secular" studies by shedding light on the colonial genealogy of secular subjectivity.