Publication Date:
2024-04-02
Description:
In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion’s role in public life in India through the present day.
Keywords:
india
;
hinduism
;
sectarianism
;
public sphere
;
hindu
;
early modern
;
religious studies
;
śaiva
;
Madurai
;
Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī
;
Sanskrit
;
Shaivism
;
Shiva
;
Smarta tradition
;
South India
;
Vedas
;
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion
Language:
English
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