Religious Cultures in Early Modern India - New Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Rosalind O'Hanlon is Professor of Indian History and Culture! Faculty of Oriental Studies! University of Oxford.David Washbrook is Senior Research Fellow! Trinity College! Cambridge. Zusammenfassung This book examines the relationship between religious authority and political power in the making of India’s modern religious cultures. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Religious cultures in an imperial landscape Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook 2. The debate within: a Sufi critique of religious law, tasawwuf and politics in Mughal India Muzaffar Alam 3. The four sampradays: ordering the religious past in Mughal North India John Stratton Hawley 4. Theology and statecraft Monika Horstmann 5. Advaita Vedanta in early modern history Christopher Minkowski 6. The Brahmin double: the Brahminical construction of anti-Brahminism and anti-caste sentiment in the religious cultures of precolonial Maharashtra Christian Lee Novetzke 7. Speaking from Siva’s temple: Banaras scholar households and the Brahman ‘ecumene’ of Mughal India Rosalind O’Hanlon 8. A tale of two temples: Mathura’s Ke´savadeva and Orccha’s Caturbhujadeva Heidi Pauwels 9. Replicating Vaisnava worlds: organizing devotional space through the architectonics of the mandala Tony K. Stewart

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• Authors: Rosalind Washbrook O''''hanlon
• Assisted by: Rosalind O'Hanlon (Editor), O'Hanlon Rosalind (Editor), David Washbrook (Editor), Washbrook David (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2011
• EAN: 9780415602327
• ISBN: 978-0-415-60232-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Islam, Sociology, HISTORY / Civilization, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Islam / Sufi, RELIGION / Hinduism / History, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice, History of Religion, Hinduism, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Indian sub-continent, History and Archaeology, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General