Engaging South Asian Religions : Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances.
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- BL1055 -- .E65 2011eb
Intro -- ENGAGING SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION: Engaging South Asian Religions -- Part One. BOUNDARIES -- 1. A SCIENCE OFDEFINING BOUNDARIES: Classification, Categorization,and the Census of India -- 2. THE REPETITION OFPAST IMPERIALISMS: Hegel, Historical Difference, and the Theorization of Indic Religions* -- 3. BEYOND NATIONAL BORDERS AND RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES: Muslim and Hindu Veneration of Bonbibi -- Part Two. APPROPRIATIONS -- 4. BOUNDARIES AND APPROPRIATIONS IN NORTH INDIAN CHARISMATIC CATHOLICISM -- 5. THE CORPSE AND CULT OF FRANCIS XAVIER, 1552-1623 -- 6. SATI OR FEMALE SUPREMACY?Feminist Appropriations of Gotami's Parinirvana -- Part Three. RESISTANCES -- 7. RESISTING MY ATTACKERS -- RESISTING MY DEFENDERS: Representing the Shivaji Narratives -- 8. RESISTING ASSIMILATION: Encounters with a Small Islamic Sectin Contemporary Pakistan -- 9. CLIMBING THROUGH PARADIGMS -- AFTERWORD AND RESPONSES -- AFTERWORD: Scandals, Scholars, Subjects -- RESPONSE 1: Historical Difference -- RESPONSE 2: Legend versus Myth -- RESPONSE 3: Staying With and Thinking Through -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- n -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Looks at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to contemporary times.
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