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Modern Hinduism in text and context / edited by Lavanya Vemsani.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781350045101
  • 1350045101
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modern Hinduism in text and context.DDC classification:
  • 294.509/04 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1153.5 .M62 2018eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction / Lavanya Vemsani -- Traditional Hinduism: classical texts, traditions, and practices -- Multi-regional and multi-linguistic virasaivism: change and continuity in an early devotional tradition / Elaine Fisher -- Entering the South Asian city: Pravesa in literature and religion / Michael Baltutis -- Demonic devotees and symbolism of violence in Hindu literature / Carl Olson -- Sacred groves: the playground of the gods / Deepak Shimkhada and Jason Mitchell -- Religious symbolism of sacrificial blood in contemporary political art: myth and art in Tamil popular culture / Amy-Ruth Holt -- Hinduism in the modern world: colonial, diasporic and women's religion -- Rite of passage in India's national struggle: understanding Ravindranath Tagore's gora in the context of religion -- America, the superlative, and India, the jewel in the crown: religious ideologies, transnationalism, and the end of the raj / Deborah A. Logan -- The integral yoga of the Sri Aurobindo Asram: gender, spirituality, and the arts / Patrick Beldio -- In relationship with the goddess: women interpreting leadership roles and shaping diasporic identities / Nanette R. Spina -- Spirituality and ritual in Odissi dance: health, healing, and ritual in a diaspora performance tradition / Kaustavi Sarkar -- A mandal of their own: gender and the reimagining of community by Hindu renouncers in North India / Antoinette E. Denapoli -- Conclusion / Lavanya Vemsani -- Appendix -- Glossary.
Summary: Modern Hinduism in Text and Context brings together textual and contextual approaches to provide a holistic understanding of modern Hinduism. It examines new sources - including regional Saiva texts, Odissi dance and biographies of Nationalists - and discusses topics such as yoga, dance, visual art and festivals in tandem with questions of spirituality and ritual. The book addresses themes and issues yet to receive in-depth attention in the study of Hinduism. It shows that Hinduism endures not only in texts, but also in the context of festivals and devotion, and that contemporary practice, devotional literature, creative traditions and ethics inform the intricacies of a religion in context. Lavanya Vemsani draws on social scientific methodologies as well as history, ethnography and textual analysis, demonstrating that they are all part of the toolkit for understanding the larger framework of religion in the context of emerging nationhood, transnational and transcultural interactions.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1826906

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lavanya Vemsani -- Traditional Hinduism: classical texts, traditions, and practices -- Multi-regional and multi-linguistic virasaivism: change and continuity in an early devotional tradition / Elaine Fisher -- Entering the South Asian city: Pravesa in literature and religion / Michael Baltutis -- Demonic devotees and symbolism of violence in Hindu literature / Carl Olson -- Sacred groves: the playground of the gods / Deepak Shimkhada and Jason Mitchell -- Religious symbolism of sacrificial blood in contemporary political art: myth and art in Tamil popular culture / Amy-Ruth Holt -- Hinduism in the modern world: colonial, diasporic and women's religion -- Rite of passage in India's national struggle: understanding Ravindranath Tagore's gora in the context of religion -- America, the superlative, and India, the jewel in the crown: religious ideologies, transnationalism, and the end of the raj / Deborah A. Logan -- The integral yoga of the Sri Aurobindo Asram: gender, spirituality, and the arts / Patrick Beldio -- In relationship with the goddess: women interpreting leadership roles and shaping diasporic identities / Nanette R. Spina -- Spirituality and ritual in Odissi dance: health, healing, and ritual in a diaspora performance tradition / Kaustavi Sarkar -- A mandal of their own: gender and the reimagining of community by Hindu renouncers in North India / Antoinette E. Denapoli -- Conclusion / Lavanya Vemsani -- Appendix -- Glossary.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 11, 2018).

Modern Hinduism in Text and Context brings together textual and contextual approaches to provide a holistic understanding of modern Hinduism. It examines new sources - including regional Saiva texts, Odissi dance and biographies of Nationalists - and discusses topics such as yoga, dance, visual art and festivals in tandem with questions of spirituality and ritual. The book addresses themes and issues yet to receive in-depth attention in the study of Hinduism. It shows that Hinduism endures not only in texts, but also in the context of festivals and devotion, and that contemporary practice, devotional literature, creative traditions and ethics inform the intricacies of a religion in context. Lavanya Vemsani draws on social scientific methodologies as well as history, ethnography and textual analysis, demonstrating that they are all part of the toolkit for understanding the larger framework of religion in the context of emerging nationhood, transnational and transcultural interactions.