Hindu Pluralism : Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India / Elaine M. Fisher.

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Fisher, Elaine M, 1984- [author.]

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TextSeries: South Asia across the disciplines | South Asia across the disciplines | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2017]Description: 1 online resource ([xii], 285 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0520966295
9780520293014
9780520966291

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Hindu pluralismDDC classification:

294.50954/8 23

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BL1153.7.S68 F57 2017

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Contents:

Hindu sectarianism: difference in unity -- "Just like Kālidāsa": the making of the Smārta-Śaiva community of South India -- Public philology: constructing sectarian identities in early modern South India -- The language games of Śaiva: mapping text and space in public religious culture -- Conclusion: a prehistory of Hindu pluralism.

Summary: "Much has been written about the historical origins of the unity of Hinduism. Hindu difference has been read through the lens of the term "sectarianism," a concept that translates devotion as dissent, and community as a potential precursor to communalism. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine. M. Fisher argues that it is the plurality of Hindu religious identities, and their embodiment and contestation in public space, that first reveals the emergence of Hinduism as a unified religion in south India and an integral feature of a distinctively Indic early modernity prior to British Colonialism."--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-267) and index.

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"Much has been written about the historical origins of the unity of Hinduism. Hindu difference has been read through the lens of the term "sectarianism," a concept that translates devotion as dissent, and community as a potential precursor to communalism. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine. M. Fisher argues that it is the plurality of Hindu religious identities, and their embodiment and contestation in public space, that first reveals the emergence of Hinduism as a unified religion in south India and an integral feature of a distinctively Indic early modernity prior to British Colonialism."--Provided by publisher.

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