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Hindu Pluralism Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India / Elaine M. Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Elaine M., 1984- author.
- Series:
- South Asia across the disciplines.
- South Asia across the disciplines
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious pluralism--India, South.
- Religious pluralism.
- Hinduism--India, South.
- Hinduism.
- India, South--Religion.
- India, South.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : illustrations (colour), map; digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of California Press 2017
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Much has been written about the historical origins of the unity of Hinduism. Hindu difference has been read through the lens of the term "sectarianism," a concept that translates devotion as dissent, and community as a potential precursor to communalism. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine. M. Fisher argues that it is the plurality of Hindu religious identities, and their embodiment and contestation in public space, that first reveals the emergence of Hinduism as a unified religion in south India and an integral feature of a distinctively Indic early modernity prior to British Colonialism."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Hindu sectarianism: difference in unity
- "Just like Kālidāsa": the making of the Smārta-Śaiva community of South India
- Public philology: constructing sectarian identities in early modern South India
- The language games of Śaiva: mapping text and space in public religious culture
- Conclusion: a prehistory of Hindu pluralism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-267) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780520966291
- 0520966295
- OCLC:
- 1085399755
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