Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances (SUNY series in Hindu Studies) - Softcover

Schmalz, Mathew N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438433247 ISBN 13: 9781438433240

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2012

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Book by Schmalz Mathew N

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"Even before opening this book, students and researchers are challenged to think both expansively and carefully about their own subjectivity, their own location within the fields in which they roam. Critical reflectivity has become a major theme in many fields of humanities research, and this volume of interlinked essays on the study of religion in South Asia in the western academy, carefully put together by [Peter] Gottschalk and Matthew Schmalz, contributes provocatively to this theme." -- Religions of South Asia

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Looks at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from precolonial to contemporary times.

Focusing on boundaries, appropriations, and resistances involved in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial period in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It pays particular attention to contemporary controversies surrounding the study of South Asian religions, including several scholars’ reflections on the contentious reaction to their own work. Other issues explored include British colonial epistemologies, Hegel’s study of South Asia, Hindu-Christian interactions in charismatic Catholicism and the canonization of Francis Xavier, feminist interpretations of the mother of the Buddha, and theological controversies among Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan. By using the themes of boundaries, appropriations, and resistances, this work offers insight into the dynamics and diversity of Western approaches to South Asian religions and the indigenous responses to, involvements with, and influences on them.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1438433247
• ISBN 13: 9781438433240
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
• Herausgeber: Gottschalk Peter