Antony Copley

Hinduism in Public and Private

Reform, Hindutva, Gender, and Sampraday

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume looks at the phenomenon of religious reform movements in terms of the larger paradigm of modernisation, and in collusion with the ideas of nationalism and Hindutva and attempts to investigate why there might be a need for a new kind of social integration within the Hindu community in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 303
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198062820
• ISBN-10: 0198062826
• Artikelnr.: 28107729

Autorenporträt

Antony Copley is Honorary Reader and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Debating Indian Nationalism and Hindu Religious Belief;
* Part I Varieties of Nationalism;
Saffron and Seva: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Appropriation of
Swami Vivekananda; 'The Centre of the Religious Life of the World'
Spiritual Universalism and Cultural Nationalism in the Work of Sri
Aurobindo;
Secularising the Sacred Cow: The Relationship between Religious
Reform and Hindu Nationalism; Inventing a National Past: The Case of
Ramdev's Bharatvars ka itihas (1910-1914);
* Part II Public and Private Spheres; 'The Hindu Woman's Right to
Samnyasa' Religious Movements and the Gender Question: The Sri Sarada
Math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission;
Remembering the Tradition: Bhaktivinoda Thakura's 'Sajjanatosani' and
the Construction of a Middle Class Vaisnava Sampradaya in Nineteenth
Century Bengal;
Mahima Dharma Ascetics: A Case Study on Popular Asceticism and its
Patronage Structure in Rural Orissa; Bhima Bhoi: The Making of a
Modern Saint;
The Seva Ethic and the Spirit of Institution Building in the Mata
Amritanandamayi Mission;
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