Swaminarayan Hinduism : tradition, adaptation and identity / edited by Raymond Brady Williams, Yogi Trivedi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Raymond Brady, editor.

Trivedi, Yogi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sahajānanda, Swami, 1781-1830.

Sahajānanda.

Swami-Narayanis.

Physical Description:

xxv, 439 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

I. History. Introduction to history / Raymond Brady Williams

Situating the Swaminarayan tradition in the historiography of modern Hindu reform / Brian A. Hatcher

Sahajanand Swami's language and communication / Makrand Mehta

Gujarati socio-religious context of Swaminarayan devotion and doctrine / Françoise Mallison

Swaminarayan and British contacts in Gujarat in the 1820s / Sadhu Paramtattvadas and Raymond Brady Williams with an Appendix on historical dating by Sadhu Amrutvijaydas

The Swaminarayan ideology and Kolis in Gujarat / Vibhuti Parikh

Sahajanand Swami's approach to caste / Sadhu Mangalnidhidas

II. Theology and literature. Introduction to Theology and literature / Yogi Trivedi

The Swaminarayan commentarial tradition / Arun Brahmbhatt

Akshara and its four forms in Swaminarayan's doctrine / Smit Gadhia

Swaminarayan's Brahmajnana as Aksarabrahma-Parabrahma-Darsanam / Sadhu Bhadreshdas ; translated by Sadhu Aksharananddas

Multivalent Krishna-bhakti in Premanand's poetry / Yogi Trivedi

Brahmanand and his innovations in the Barahmasa genre / Dalpat Rajpurohit

III. The arts and architecture. Introduction to The arts and architecture / Yogi Trivedi

Early Swaminarayan iconography and its relationship to Vaishnavism / Cynthia Packert

Swaminarayan temple building: tradition and innovation / Rabindra Vasavada

The Nagara tradition of temple architecture and 'truth to Shastra' / Adam Hardy

IV. Transnational networks. Introduction to Transnational networks / Raymond Brady Williams

Development of Swaminarayan Hinduism in Uganda and the Kampala Temple / Paddy Musana

Transnational growth of BAPS in East Africa / Sadhu Vivekjivandas with Mahendrabhai Patel and Sadhu Ishwarcharandas

Terrorism and interfaith relations at Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar / Sadhu Brahmaviharidas

Construction of the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Chino Hills, California: a case study in interfaith bridge-building / Kalpesh Bhatt

Thinking through Akshardham and the making of the Swaminarayan self / Hanna Kim

Swaminarayan (BAPS) identity formation in virtual transnationalism / Andrew Kunze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199463749

0199463743

OCLC:

951155779