Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jacobsen, Knut A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429619915
• Artikelnr.: 60425032

Autorenporträt

Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. His most recent book published by Routledge is Yoga in Modern Hinduism (2018) and the co-edited book Religion and Technology in India (2018), and he is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Historical and Contemporary South Asian Religions Part I Historical South Asian Religions: Formative developments 1. The Veda 2. The rise of Classical Brahmanism 3. Identity in Early Indian Religion 4. Dharma in Classical Hinduism 5. Reason, Dharma, and the discovery of Faith: Insights from the Modes of Classical Hinduism 6. From Yajña to P
j
? 7. Early Pilgrimage Traditions in South Asia 8. Sri Lanka's Place in the History of South Asian Buddhism 9. The Place of Historical Nepal in the History of South Asian Religions 10. The Rise of Vai
ava Devotion in North India: On the Origins of a Mughal Bhakti Sensibility 11. N
th Säprad
ya and the Formation of Häha Yoga Practices in India 12. Aurangzeb and Islam in India: 50 Years of Mughal Realpolitik 13. The Territorialisation of Sikh Pasts Part II Contemporary South Asian Religions: Religious pluralism 14. Dalits and religion: Anti-caste Movements in India 15. The Betwixt and Between Religious Imaginary of L
ld
s: Neither Here nor There 16. Conversion and Christian Relations with Non-Christians in South Asia 17. Science Sanskritised: How Modern Science Became a Handmaiden of Hindu Nationalism 18. Religion and Society in Pakistan: From P
r's Domination to Individual Connected Piety 19. Religion and Society in Bangladesh: Unpacking the Multilayered Relationships 20. Religion and Society in Sri Lanka 21. Religion and Secularism in Contemporary Nepal 22. The Transformation of Female Monastic Education in Contemporary Bhutan: If You Build Them, They Will Come 23. Regressing for Progress: Maldives Embraces a Salafi Future 24. Festivals in South Asia: Celebrations of Local Communities 25. Indian Religions in the U.S. 26. The Global Manifestation of the Hindu Guru Phenomenon