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] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : color illustrations, map
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. South India.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397959

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ISBN:	9780520966291 0520966295 9780520293014 0520293010
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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:	Print version: Fisher, Elaine M., 1984- Hindu pluralism. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520293014

Table of Contents:

Hindu sectarianism: difference in unity
"Just like Kālidāsa": the making of the Smārta-Śaiva community of South India
Public philology: constructing sectarian identities in early modern South India
The language games of Śaiva: mapping text and space in public religious culture
Conclusion: a prehistory of Hindu pluralism.