Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols

Pemberton, Kelly / Nijhawan, Michael (Hrsg.):
Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia / ed. by Kelly Pemberton and Michael Nijhawan. - London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2008. - vi, 253 S. - (Routledge Studies in Religion ; 11)
ISBN: 978-0-415-95828-8
US$ 95,00 / £ 60,00

Beschreibung
How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. Contributors to this volume are particularly interested in how alternative forms of belonging and religious imaginations in South Asia are articulated in the light of normative, authoritative, and exclusive claims upon the representation of identities. Building upon new and extensive historiographical and ethnographical data, the book challenges clear-cut categorizations of group identity and points to the complex historical and contemporary relationships between different groups, organizations, in part by investigating the discursive formations that are often subsumed under binary distinctions of dominant/subaltern, Hindu/Muslim or orthodox/heterodox. In this respect, the book offers a theoretical contribution beyond South Asia Studies by highlighting a need for a new interdisciplinary effort in rethinking notions of identity, ethnicity, and religion. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgments. vii
Kelly Pemberton & Michael Nijhawan: Introduction: Toward an Integrative Hermeneutics in the Study of Identity
PART I: LANDSCAPES OF TRANSLATION: LINGUISTICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE IN FOCUS
1. Amy Bard & Valerie Ritter: A House Overturned: A Classical Urdu Lament in Braj Bhasha. 21
2. Arvind Mandair: The Politics of Non-Duality: Unravelling the Hermeneutics of Modern Sikh Theology. 54
3. Srilata Raman: Who are the Vellalas? 20th Century Constructions and Contestations of Tamil Identity in Maraimalai Adigal (1876-1950). 78
4. Huma Dar: Can a Muslim be an Indian and not a Traitor or Terrorist? 96
5. Amina Yaqin: Variants of Cultural Nationalism in Pakistan: a Reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi, and Fahmida Riaz. 115
PART II: LANDSCAPES OF RITUAL PERFORMANCE: RITUAL, AGENCY, AND MEMORY IN FOCUS
6. Michael Nijhawan: Ambivalent Encounters: The Making of Dhadi as a Sikh Performative Practice. 143
7. Kelly Pemberton: Ritual, Reform, and Economies of Meaning at a South Asian Sufi Shrine. 166
8. Diane D'Souza: Gendered Ritual and the Shaping of Shi'ah Identity. 188
9. Christian Lee Novetzke: History, Memory, and Other Matters of Life and Death. 212
Selected bibliography. 233
Contributors. 243
Index of Proper Names. 247
Thematic index. 249

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KELLY PEMBERTON is assistant professor of religion and women's studies at George Washington University. Research interests include mysticism and Islamic movements in South Asia and the Middle East. Her work has been published in academic journals, encyclopedias, and edited volumes, and will appear in her forthcoming book on women mystics. Faculty page.
MICHAEL NIJHAWAN is assistant professor in sociology at York University, Toronto. He has authored Dhadi Darbar. Religion, Violence, and the Performance of Sikh History, and he is completing the documentary film Musafer – Sikhi is Traveling. Profile page.

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