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Hinduism in public and private reform, hindutva, gender and sampraday

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford India paperbacksPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2009Description: viii,303p. 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780198062820
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.51720954 22 HI-
Contents:
Introduction : debating Indian nationalism and Hindu religious belief / Antony Copley -- Saffron and Seva : the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda / Gwilym Beckerlegge -- 'The centre of the religious life of the world' : spiritual universalism and cultural nationalism in the work of Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs -- Secularizing the sacred cow : the relationship between religious reform and Hindu nationalism / Therese O'Toole -- Inventing a national past : the case of Ramdev's Bhāratvarṣ kā itihās (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- 'The Hindu woman's right to Saṁnyāsa' : religious movements and the gender question : the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rüstau -- Re-membering the tradition : Bhaktivinoda Thākura's Sajjanaṭosanī and the construction of a middle-class Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya in nineteenth-century Bengal / Jason D. Fuller -- Mahima Dharma ascetics : a case study on popular asceticism and its patronage structure in rural Orissa / Lidia Julianna Guzy -- Bhima Bhoi : the making of a modern saint / Johannes Beltz -- The Seva ethic and the spirit of institution building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission / Maya Warrier.
Summary: Papers presented at the European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, held at Edinburgh in September 2000.
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Originally published: New Dehli : Oxford University Press, c2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : debating Indian nationalism and Hindu religious belief / Antony Copley -- Saffron and Seva : the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda / Gwilym Beckerlegge -- 'The centre of the religious life of the world' : spiritual universalism and cultural nationalism in the work of Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs -- Secularizing the sacred cow : the relationship between religious reform and Hindu nationalism / Therese O'Toole -- Inventing a national past : the case of Ramdev's Bhāratvarṣ kā itihās (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- 'The Hindu woman's right to Saṁnyāsa' : religious movements and the gender question : the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rüstau -- Re-membering the tradition : Bhaktivinoda Thākura's Sajjanaṭosanī and the construction of a middle-class Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya in nineteenth-century Bengal / Jason D. Fuller -- Mahima Dharma ascetics : a case study on popular asceticism and its patronage structure in rural Orissa / Lidia Julianna Guzy -- Bhima Bhoi : the making of a modern saint / Johannes Beltz -- The Seva ethic and the spirit of institution building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission / Maya Warrier.

Papers presented at the European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, held at Edinburgh in September 2000.

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