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Guru English : South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language / Srinivas Aravamudan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Translation/Transnation ; 27Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691118284
  • 9781400826858
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420/.954
LOC classification:
  • PE3502 .G87 A73 2005
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. Theolinguistics: Orientalists, Brahmos, Vedantins, and Yogis -- CHAPTER TWO. From Indian Romanticism to Guru Literature -- CHAPTER THREE. Theosophistries -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural -- CHAPTER FIVE. Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism -- CHAPTER SIX. New Age Enchantments -- AFTERWORD -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. Theolinguistics: Orientalists, Brahmos, Vedantins, and Yogis -- CHAPTER TWO. From Indian Romanticism to Guru Literature -- CHAPTER THREE. Theosophistries -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural -- CHAPTER FIVE. Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism -- CHAPTER SIX. New Age Enchantments -- AFTERWORD -- Notes -- Index

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Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)