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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Bibliographic Details
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

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Hindu Sectarianism: Difference in Unity
2. "Just Like Kalidasa": The Making of the Smarta-Saiva Community of South India
3. Public Philology: Constructing Sectarian Identities in Early Modern South India
4. The Language Games of Siva: Mapping Text and Space in Public Religious Culture
Conclusion: A Prehistory of Hindu Pluralism
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index