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Includes a range of voices - such as women and Hindus in the
diaspora - which are often excluded or given short shrift in other
textbooks, so that readers are provided with a more comprehensive
overview of the tradition. Explores both the commonalities and
differences between the various aspects of Hindu traditions to
introduce students to their complexity and diversity. Explores the
rise of Hindu nationalism and other developments of the 21st
Century to ensure that this is the most up-to-date introduction to
Hinduism available.
Includes a range of voices - such as women and Hindus in the
diaspora - which are often excluded or given short shrift in other
textbooks, so that readers are provided with a more comprehensive
overview of the tradition. Explores both the commonalities and
differences between the various aspects of Hindu traditions to
introduce students to their complexity and diversity. Explores the
rise of Hindu nationalism and other developments of the 21st
Century to ensure that this is the most up-to-date introduction to
Hinduism available.
Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by
goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga
or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a
particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both
ancient with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults
having occurred along the way and very recent. While some have
tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream.
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of
Hindu Divinities on the Move looks at the nature of how and why
goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and how
social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in
these emerging religious phenomena."
Toleration in Comparative Perspective is a collection of essays
that explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and
the West. It tests the common assumption in Western political
discourse and contemporary political theory that toleration is a
uniquely Western virtue. Toleration in modern Western philosophy is
understood as principled noninterference in the practices and
beliefs of others that one disapproves of or, at least, dislikes.
Although toleration might be seen today as a quintessential liberal
value, precedents to this modern concept also existed in medieval
times while Indigenous American stories about welcome challenge the
very possibility of noninterference. The modern Western
philosophical concept of toleration is not always easily translated
into other philosophical traditions, but this book opens a dialogue
between various traditions of thought to explore precisely the ways
in which overlap and distinctions exist. What emerges is the
existence of a family of resemblances in approaches to religious
and cultural diversity from a program of pragmatic noninterference
in the Ottoman Empire to deeper notions of acceptance and
inclusiveness amongst the Newar People in the Kathmandu Valley. The
development of an Islamic ethic of tolerance, the Daoist idea of
all-inclusiveness, and Confucian ideas of broad-mindedness,
respect, and coexistence to the idea of 'the one in the many' in
Hindu thought are examined along with sources for intolerance,
tolerance, and toleration in Pali Buddhism, early modern Japan, and
contemporary India.
Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by
goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga
or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a
particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both
ancient-with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults
having occurred along the way-and very recent. While some have
tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream.
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of
Hindu Divinities on the Move looks at the nature of how and why
goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and how
social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in
these emerging religious phenomena.
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt offers an illuminating study of Narsinha
Mehta, one of the most renowned saint-poets of medieval India and
the most celebrated bhakti (devotion) poet from Gujarat, whose
songs and sacred biography formed a vital source of moral
inspiration for Gandhi. Exploring manuscripts, medieval texts,
Gandhi's more obscure writings, and performances in multiple
religious and non-religious contexts, including modern popular
media, Shukla-Bhatt shows that the songs and sacred narratives
associated with the saint-poet have been sculpted by performers and
audiences into a popular source of moral inspiration.
Drawing on the Indian concept of bhakti-rasa (devotion as nectar),
Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat reveals that the sustained popularity of
the songs and narratives over five centuries, often across
religious boundaries and now beyond devotional contexts in modern
media, is the result of their combination of inclusive religious
messages and aesthetic appeal in performance. Taking as an example
Gandhi's perception of the songs and stories as vital cultural
resources for social reconstruction, the book suggests that when
religion acquires the form of popular culture, it becomes a widely
accessible platform for communication among diverse groups.
Shukla-Bhatt expands upon the scholarship on the embodied and
public dimension of bhakti through detailed analysis of multiple
public venues of performance and commentary, including YouTube
videos.
This study provides a vivid picture of the Narasinha tradition, and
will be a crucial resource for anyone seeking to understand the
power of religious performative traditions in popular media.
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