Hindu pluralism : religion and the public sphere in early modern South India /

Hindu pluralism : religion and the public sphere in early modern South India /

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Author / Creator:	Fisher, Elaine M., 1984- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description:	xi, 285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	South Asia across the disciplines South Asia across the disciplines.
Subject:	Hinduism -- India, South. Religious pluralism -- India, South. Hinduism. Religion. Religious pluralism. India, South -- Religion. India, South.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11040174

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ISBN:	9780520293014 0520293010
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Much has been written about the historical origins of the unity of Hinduism. Hindu difference has been read through the lens of the term "sectarianism," a concept that translates devotion as dissent, and community as a potential precursor to communalism. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine. M. Fisher argues that it is the plurality of Hindu religious identities, and their embodiment and contestation in public space, that first reveals the emergence of Hinduism as a unified religion in south India and an integral feature of a distinctively Indic early modernity prior to British Colonialism."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Online version: Fisher, Elaine M., 1984- Hindu pluralism. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520966291
Standard no.:	99971633991

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Summary:	A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.<br> <br> <br> <br> In Hindu Pluralism , Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term "sectarianism," Fisher's work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.
Physical Description:	xi, 285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780520293014 0520293010