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Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism (Hardcover)
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Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism (Hardcover)
Series: AAR RELIGION IN TRANSLATION
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Religious texts are not stable objects, passed down unchanged
through generations. The way in which religious communities receive
their scriptures changes over time and in different social
contexts. This book considers religious reading through a study of
the Pushtimarg, a Hindu community whose devotional practices and
community identity have developed in close relationship with Varta
Sahitya (Chronicle Literature), a genre of Hindi prose hagiography
written during the 17th century. Through hagiographies that narrate
the relationships between the deity Krishna and the Pushtimarg's
early leaders and their disciples, these hagiographies provide
community history, theology, vicarious epiphany, and models of
devotion. While steeped in the social world of early-modern north
India, these texts have continued to be immensely popular among
generations of modern devotees, whose techniques of reading and
exegesis allow them to maintain the narratives as primary guides
for devotional living in Gujarat-the western state of India where
the Pushtimarg thrives today. Combining ethnographic fieldwork with
close readings of Hindi and Gujarati texts, the book examines how
members of the community engage with the hagiographies through
recitation and dialogue in temples and homes, through commentary
and translation in print publications and on the Internet, and even
through debates in courts of law. The book argues that these acts
of "reading" inform and are informed by both intimate negotiations
of the family and the self, and also by politically potent disputes
over matters such as temple governance. By studying the texts
themselves, as well as the social contexts of their reading,
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism
provides a distinct example of how changing class, regional, and
gender identities continue to shape interpretations of a scriptural
canon, and how, in turn, these interpretations influence ongoing
projects of self and community fashioning.
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