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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have
succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking
religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the
fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of
Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to
share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation. This
volume was conceived to open up new spaces of creative interaction
between scholars in both fields that will increase our
understanding of the circulation and localization of religious
texts, institutional models, ritual practices, and literary
specialists. The book's approach is to scrutinize one major
dimension of the history of religion in Southern Asia: religious
orders. "Orders" (here referring to Sufi ?ariqas and Buddhist
monastic and other ritual lineages) established means by which
far-flung local communities could come to be recognized and engaged
as part of a broader world of co-religionists, while presenting
their particular religious traditions and their human
representatives as attractive and authoritative to potential new
communities of devotees. Contributors to the volume direct their
attention toward analogous developments mutually illuminating for
both fields of study. Some explain how certain orders took shape in
Southern Asia over the course of the nineteenth century,
contextualizing these institutional developments in relation to
local and transregional political formations, shifting literary and
ritual preferences, and trade connections. Others show how the
circulation of people, ideas, texts, objects, and practices across
Southern Asia, a region in which both Buddhism and Islam have a
long and substantial presence, brought diverse currents of internal
reform and notions of ritual and lineage purity to the region. All
chapters draw readers' attention to the fact that networked persons
were not always strongly institutionalized and often moved through
Southern Asia and developed local bases without the oversight of
complex corporate organizations. Buddhist and Islamic Orders in
Southern Asia brings cutting-edge research to bear on conversations
about how "orders" have functioned within these two traditions to
expand and sustain transregional religious networks. It will help
to develop a better understanding of the complex roles played by
religious networks in the history of Southern Asia.
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