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Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond

Lindquist, Steven E. [Hrsg.]:
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond : Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle / ed. by Steven E. Lindquist. - London and New York : Anthem Press, 2011. - ca. 392 S.
ISBN 978-0-85728-790-8
£ 60,00 / US$ 99,00
DDC: 294
-- Angekündigt für Oktober 2011 --

Beschreibung
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. An exceptionally prolific scholar, Olivelle's best-known works include Manu's Code of Law (2005), The Early Upaniṣads (1998) and The Āśrama System (1993). Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the ascetic and legal traditions of India, but his work as both a researcher and a teacher extends beyond early Indian religion and literature. Religion and Identity and South Asia and Beyond is a testament to that influence.
   The contributions in this volume, many by former students of Olivelle, are committed to linguistic and historical rigor, combined with sensitivity to how the study of Asia has been changing over the last several decades. Several of the essays examine the construction of religious and cultural identity (whether among Brahmins, Buddhists, Dalits or Muslims), while others are concerned particularly with problems of historical reconstruction and textual interpretation. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Steven E. Lindquist:
Introduction: Patrick Olivelle and Indology. 9
Major Publications of Patrick Olivelle. 15
PART I. WORD, TEXT, CONTEXT
Timothy Lubin:
The Elusive Snātaka. 23
Jarrod L. Whitaker:
Who Gets to Live Forever in Ancient India? Rethinking āyus ("life") in the Ṛgveda. 41
Steven E. Lindquist:
One Yājñavalkya... Two? On the (Questionable) Historicity of a Literary Figure. 69
Robert A. Goodding:
A Theologian in a South Indian Kingdom: The Historical Context of the Jīvanmuktiviveka of Vidyāraṇya. 83
Brian Black:
The Rhetoric of Secrecy in the Upaniṣads. 101
PART II. CUSTOM AND LAW
Robert A. Yelle:
Punishing Puns: Etymology as Linguistic Ideology in Hindu and British Traditions. 129
Donald R. Davis, Jr.:
Matrilineal Adoption, Inheritance Law, and Rites for the Dead among Hindus in Medieval Kerala. 147
Federico Squarcini:
Punishing in Public: Imposing Moral Self-Dominance in Normative Sanskrit Sources. 165
PART III. BUDDHISTS AND JAINS AS SELVES AND OTHERS
Oliver Freiberger:
How the Buddha Dealt with Non-Buddhists. 185
Daniel Boucher:
Sacrifice and Asceticism in Early Mahāyāna Buddhism. 197
Lisa N. Owen:
Text and Image: Identifying Ellora's Jain Deities. 225
PART IV. (RE)CONSIDERING GEOGRAPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES
Devin DeWeese:
Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval Sufi Communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India: The Khalvatī/‘Ishqī/Shattārī Continuum. 251
Jason BeDuhn:
Digesting the Sacrifices: Ritual Internalization in Jewish, Hindu, and Manichaean Traditions. 301
Manu Bhagavan:
The Hindutva Underground: Hindu Nationalism and the Indian National Congress in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial India. 321
Laura R. Brueck:
Marking the Boundaries of a New Literary Identity: The Assertion of ‘Dalit Consciousness' in Dalit Literary Criticism. 347
Karline McLain:
Young Śvetaketu in America: Learning to be Hindu in the Diaspora. 369
List of Contributors. 391

Herausgeber
STEVEN E. LINDQUIST is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA. Homepage.

Gefeierte Persönlichkeit
J[OSEPH] PATRICK OLIVELLE is professor at the University of Texas at Austin, he holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities. Profile page (Dept. of Religious Studies); profile page (South Asia Institute).

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