Religious reading and everyday lives in devotional Hinduism / Emilia Bachrach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bachrach, Emilia, author.

Series:

AAR religion in translation.

AAR religion in translation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hindu literature--History and criticism.

Hindu literature.

Hinduism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism considers religious reading through a study of the Pushtimarg, a Hindu community whose devotional practices and community identity have developed in close relationship to a genre of prose hagiography written during the 17th century. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and close readings of Indian language texts, each chapter of the book showcases various ways in which devotees have performatively read and interpreted these hagiographies in ways that help them navigate between their roles as devotional caretakers of the Hindu deity Krishna and their social and familial obligations in the modern world.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction: An Ethnography of Reading

1. Dialogical Reading: The Pushtimarg's Performative Canon

2. Commentarial Reading: Historicizing Hagiography and Making Modern Readers

3. Public Reading: Debating Text, Temple, and Religious Authority

4. Community Reading: Learning Affective Piety

5. Women's Reading: Navigating Family, Gender, and Devotion

Conclusion: Religious Reading and Everyday Lives

Appendix: Select Translations of Key Texts

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bachrach, Emilia Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism

ISBN:

0-19-764862-2

0-19-764860-6

0-19-764861-4