Hinduism in public and private : reform, Hindutva, gender, and sampraday / edited by Antony Copley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copley, A. R. H. (Antony R. H.), 1937-2016.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hinduism and politics--India.

Hinduism and politics.

Hinduism and social problems.

India.

Hinduism and social problems--India.

Nationalism--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

viii, 303 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Contributed articles.

Contents:

Introduction : debating Indian nationalism and Hindu religious belief / Antony Copley

Saffron and Seva : the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda / Gwilym Beckerlegge

'The centre of the religious life of the world' : spiritual universalism and cultural nationalism in the work of Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs

Secularizing the sacred cow : the relationship between religious reform and Hindu nationalism / Therese O'Toole

Inventing a national past : the case of Ramdev's Bhāratvarṣ kā itihās (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tiné

The Hindu woman's right to Saṁnyāsa' : religious movements and the gender question : the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rüstau

Re-membering the tradition : Bhaktivindoa Thākura's Sajjanaṭosanī and the construction of a middle-class Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya in nineteenth-century Bengal / Jason D. Fuller

Mahima Dharma ascetics : a case study on popular asceticism and its patronage structure in rural Orissa / Lidia Julianna Guzy

Bhima Bhoi : the making of a modern saint / Johannes Beltz

The Seva ethic and the spirit of institution building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission / Maya Warrier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195663934

OCLC:

51109277