Research Catalog

Title

Re-imagining South Asian religions : essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pashaura Singh
• Hawley, Michael (Michael Edwin)
• Coward, Harold G.
• Neufeldt, Ronald W. (Ronald Wesley), 1941-

Description

xxv, 302 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Series Statement

Numen book series, studies in the history of religions ; v. 141

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of religions ; v. 141.

Subject

• South Asia > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface and introduction: re-imaging South Asian religions / Pashura Singh and Michael Hawley -- Part 1. Reflections on the field -- Traditional Sanskrit and modern scholarship: a personal journey / Harold G. Coward -- A modest retrospective / Ronald W. Neufeldt -- Part 2. New orientations, globalization, and pedagogy -- Re-imagining Sikhi ('Sikhness') in the Twenty-first century: Toward a paradigm shift in Sikh studies / Pashaura Singh -- The politics of perspectivalism: Anekāntavāda as a counter-anthropologising strategy / Tinu Ruparell -- Rewriiting the Hindu traditions from global perspectives / Vasudha Narayanan -- Pedagogy in the Janam-sakhis: 'Teaching texts' moving past old categories / Toby Braden Johnson -- Part III. Performance and memory -- Re-imagining religious history through women's song performance at the Kāmākhyā Temple site / Patricia A. Dold -- Tibetan Buddhist monastic performance: ritual practice and cultural preservation in the Tibetan diaspora / Sarah F. Haynes -- 'Performance' and 'lived religion' approaches as new ways of 're-imagining' Sikh studies / Charles M. Townsend -- Part IV. History, encounter, and exchange -- Re-imagining theosophy through Canadian art: Indian theosophical influences on the painting and writing of Lawren Harris -- Re-imagining Hindu beginnings in Canada / Paul Younger -- The Indianness of Christianity: the task of re-imagination / Dyron B. Daughrity -- M.K. Gandhi and the Sikhs: violence, religious identity, and competing modernities / Michael Hawley.

Call Number

JFE 16-3253

ISBN

• 9789004242364
• 9004242368
• 9004242376
• 9789004242371
• 9789004242371 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012036677

OCLC

809989042

Title

Re-imagining South Asian religions : essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Numen book series, studies in the history of religions ; v. 141

Studies in the history of religions ; v. 141.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pashaura Singh, editor.

Hawley, Michael (Michael Edwin), editor.

Coward, Harold G., honouree.

Neufeldt, Ronald W. (Ronald Wesley), 1941- honouree.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3253