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Informationen zum Autor Antony Copley is Honorary Reader and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Kent, Canterbury. Klappentext This volume looks at the phenomenon of religious reform movements in terms of the larger paradigm of modernisation, and in collusion with the ideas of nationalism and Hindutva and attempts to investigate why there might be a need for a new kind of social integration within the Hindu community in India. Zusammenfassung Beginning with the premise that any pursuit of an Indian identity in the narrow terms of Hinduness is a radical distortion, this significant volume attempts to investigate why there might be a need for a new kind of social integration within the Hindu community in India. It looks at the phenomenon of religious reform movements in terms of the larger paradigm of modernisation, and in collusion with the ideas of nationalism and Hindutva. In doing so, it attempts to answer the question, what indeed is the role of religion in society. Is it essentially a matter of private faith, or does it ineluctably play its part in society at large? The first few essays analyse the influence of key personalities such as Vivekananda, Aurobindo, and Dayanand Saraswati on the rise of ideas which later came to be known as Hindutva. The later essays in the volume address the public-private paradigm more directly as they look at 'feminist' movements associated with Hindutva and more contemporary Hindu reform movements. In conclusion, the essays demonstrate that while the exact connection between Hindutva and the religious reform movements remain uncertain, it is clear that a specifically religious or Hindu nationalism grew out of the same intellectual climate as the secular freedom struggle. The volume serves the crucial purpose of answering many questions about the Hindutva movement which have troubled the individual consciousness for a long time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Debating Indian Nationalism and Hindu Religious Belief; Part I Varieties of Nationalism; Saffron and Seva: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Appropriation of Swami Vivekananda; 'The Centre of the Religious Life of the World' Spiritual Universalism and Cultural Nationalism in the Work of Sri Aurobindo; Secularising the Sacred Cow: The Relationship between Religious Reform and Hindu Nationalism; Inventing a National Past: The Case of Ramdev's Bharatvars ka itihas (1910-1914); Part II Public and Private Spheres; 'The Hindu Woman's Right to Samnyasa' Religious Movements and the Gender Question: The Sri Sarada Math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission; Remembering the Tradition: Bhaktivinoda Thakura's 'Sajjanatosani' and the Construction of a Middle Class Vaisnava Sampradaya in Nineteenth Century Bengal; Mahima Dharma Ascetics: A Case Study on Popular Asceticism and its Patronage Structure in Rural Orissa; Bhima Bhoi: The Making of a Modern Saint; The Seva Ethic and the Spirit of Institution Building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission; Bibliography ...
