This volume examines the intellectual trajectories of remarkable
individuals who interacted with religious discourses, doctrines or
practices in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inspired
by S. Subrahmanyam and S. Gruzinski's historiographical model of
"connected histories", this book introduces the approach of
"connected religion" and invites the study of cross-cultural and
"translocal" encounters by bringing together documents that
represent diverse aspects of the story and reconstructing a
narrative from diverse standpoints, with analytical potential.
Testing this approach through specific cases of interactions
between Asia and Europe, the volume explores the little-known
stories of actors such as migrants or expatriates interacting with
religious discourses, and of religious leaders producing and
propagating beliefs and practices. The cases pose questions that
can be applied to further contexts, such as: the significance of
improved travels and communications for the diffusion of religious
content across national, cultural and institutional boundaries; the
impact of specific individuals, charismatic or not,
well-established or subaltern in the reconfiguration of
institutional forms of religion; and the role of the South Asian
referent in legitimating the propagation of specific religious
views. Offering both an innovative methodological framework and
original cases based on new research, the book will be of interest
to scholars of religion, to specialists of South Asia in late
modernity and to the broader public.
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