Religion and public culture : encounters and identities in modern South India

edited by Keith E. Yandell and John J. Paul

The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life and religious tradition in South India. Essays in this collection attempt to explore the intricacies of what is perhaps the single most complex socio-religious environment in the world. The essays consider the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and singular separate religion; the relationship between this kind of formulation and various European or western influences in India; and differences which the formation of this idea and its acceptance have made upon wider public consciousness. Each essay also considers certain general issues - such as the passing along of religious authority from one generation to the next, and the rise of disputes over matters both ideological (or doctrinal) and institutional, disputes that are fundamental to the traditions concerned and yet have unmistakable cross-cultural references.

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[目次]

  • The construction of Hinduism as a "public" religion - looking again at the religious roots of company Raj in South India
  • acting in public versus forming a public
  • the significance of episcopal extension for church-state relations in British India
  • the drama of conversion in the courts of South India - challenges to aggressive missionary enterprise and changing judicial attitudes in the 19th century
  • routinized charisma - the case of Aurobodino and Auroville
  • dissolving one paradox and discovering another -Pillan's interpretation of Nammalvar's poem
  • memories of Brahman Agraharam on Travancore
  • cult saints, heroes and warrior kings -South Asian Islam in the making
  • persons "east" and "west"
  • the Buddhists and Jains in Tamil history.

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書名 Religion and public culture : encounters and identities in modern South India
著作者等 Yandell, Keith E.
Paul John J.
Paul John J. (John Jeya)
出版元 Curzon
刊行年月 2000
ページ数 xii, 260 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0700711015
NCID BA46540859
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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