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Hinduism Before Reform (Hardcover)
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Hinduism Before Reform (Hardcover)
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A bold retelling of the origins of contemporary Hinduism, and an
argument against the long-established notion of religious reform.
By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline,
and the East India Company was making inroads into the
subcontinent. A century later Christian missionaries, Hindu
teachers, Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the colorful
religious fabric of colonial India. Focusing on two early
nineteenth-century Hindu communities, the Brahmo Samaj and the
Swaminarayan Sampraday, and their charismatic figureheads-the
"cosmopolitan" Rammohun Roy and the "parochial" Swami Narayan-Brian
Hatcher explores how urban and rural people thought about faith,
ritual, and gods. Along the way he sketches a radical new view of
the origins of contemporary Hinduism and overturns the idea of
religious reform. Hinduism Before Reform challenges the rigid
structure of revelation-schism -reform-sect prevalent in much
history of religion. Reform, in particular, plays an important role
in how we think about influential Hindu movements and religious
history at large. Through the lens of reform, one doctrine is
inevitably backward-looking while another represents modernity.
From this comparison flows a host of simplistic conclusions.
Instead of presuming a clear dichotomy between backward and modern,
Hatcher is interested in how religious authority is acquired and
projected. Hinduism Before Reform asks how religious history would
look if we eschewed the obfuscating binary of progress and
tradition. There is another way to conceptualize the origins and
significance of these two Hindu movements, one that does not trap
them within the teleology of a predetermined modernity.
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