Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pemberton, Kelly; Nijhawan, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work focuses on processes of articulating identity. The notions of "shared idioms" and "sacred symbols" shaping this volume suggest both a search for common ground and boundary-drawing processes. Individual chapters locate "sites" of these modes and the conditions that engender them, problematizing the truth-claims of unitary markers of identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135904760
• Artikelnr.: 38265069

Autorenporträt

Kelly Pemberton is assistant professor of religion and women's studies at George Washington University. Research interests include mysticism and Islamic movements in South Asia and the Middle East. Her work has been published in academic journals, encyclopedias, and edited volumes, and will appear in her forthcoming book on women mystics. Michael Nijhawan is assistant professor in sociology at York University, Toronto. He has authored Dhadi Darbar. Religion, Violence, and the Performance of Sikh History, and he is completing the documentary film Musafer - Sikhi is Traveling.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards an Integrative Hermeneutics in the Study of Identity
Kelly Pemberton & Michael Nijhawan Part I: Landscapes of Translation:
Linguistics, History, and Culture in Focus Chapter 1: A House Overturned: A
Classical Urdu Lament in Braj Bhasha Amy Bard & Valerie Ritter Chapter 2:
The Politics of Non-Duality: Unravelling the Hermeneutics of Modern Sikh
Theology Arvind Mandair Chapter 3: Who are the Vellalas? 20th Century
Constructions and Contestations of Tamil Identity in Maraimalai Adigal
(1876-1950) Srilata Raman Chapter 4: Can a Muslim be an Indian and not a
Traitor or Terrorist? Huma Dar Chapter 5: Variants of Cultural Nationalism
in Pakistan: a Reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi, and Fahmida Riaz
Amina Yaqin Part II: Landscapes of Ritual Performance: Ritual, Agency, and
Memory in Focus Chapter 6: Ambivalent Encounters: The Making of Dhadi as a
Sikh Performative Practice Michael Nijhawan Chapter 7: Ritual, Reform, and
Economies of Meaning at a South Asian Sufi Shrine Kelly Pemberton Chapter
8: Gendered Ritual and the Shaping of Shi`ah Identity Diane D'Souza
Chapter 9: History, Memory, and Other Matters of Life and Death Christian
Lee Novetzke