Patronage and Popularisation

Pauwels, Heidi Rika Maria (Hrsg.):
Patronage and popularisation, pilgrimage and procession : Channels of transcultural translation and transmission in early modern South Asia ; Papers in Honor of Monika Horstmann / ed. by Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2009. - XV, 215 S. - (Studies in Oriental Religions ; 57)
ISBN 978-3-447-05723-3 / 3-447-05723-8
EUR 52,00

Beschreibung
This volume is about exchange of religious ideas, focusing on channels of transmission and translation, both inter- and trans-culturally. It looks at the circulation of ideas in early modern India, with an eye to identify moments of change and its agents. The main questions under investigation are: How are religious traditions transmitted? At which point do innovations occur and are they explicitly marked as such or do they slip in unnoticed? Who are the agents involved in transmission and change, and what are the audiences and patrons of these processes? The volume also studies how this flow of ideas influences dynamics of identity formation. In particular, several papers look at the construction of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim identities in the modern period, and how this evolved from more fluid, or differently constituted identities in the pre-modern period. The volume is organized around three themes: transcultural translation, pilgrimage and procession, and patronage and popularisation. [Verlagsankündigung]

[Aus dem Vorwort:] This volume results from a symposium held in May 2007 at the University of Washington in Seattle in honour of Professor Monika Horstmann (who has also published under the names Jordan-Horstmann, Thiel-Horstmann and Boehm-Tettelbach) at the occasion of her retirement as Director of the Institute for South Asia in Heidelberg.

Inhalt
List of Contributors and Selected Publications. IX
Note on Transliteration. XI
Preface. XIII
Introduction. 1
PART 1. TRANSCULTURAL TRANSLATION
1. Monika Horstmann: Pāras-Bhāg: Bhāī Aḍḍan's Translation of Al-Ghazālī's Kīmiyā-yi Sa‘ādat. 9
2. Heidi Pauwels: Two "Gardens of Love": Raskhān's Prem-Vāṭikā and Nāgrīdās' Iśk-Caman. 23
3. Françoise Mallison: The Delamī-Śrādh of Devāyat Paṇḍit: A Ritual Text of the Early Nizārī Ismailis of Western India, Still in Use among the Present Tāntric Mahāmārgīs of Gujarat. 39
4. Prem Pahlajrai: Vernacularisation and the Dādūpanthī Niścaldās. 51
PART 2. PILGRIMAGE AND PROCESSION
5. Hans Bakker: Rāma Devotion in a Śaiva Holy Place: The Case of Vārāṇasī. 67
6. John Stratton Hawley: The Bhāgavata-Māhātmya in Context. 81
7. Vasudha Paramasivan: Yah Ayodhyā Vah Ayodhyā: Earthly and Cosmic Journeys in the Ānand-Laharī. 101
8. Vasudha Dalmia: Pilgrimage, Fairs and the Secularisation of Space in Modern Hindi Narrative Discourse. 117
9. Véronique Bouillier: The Pilgrimage to Kadri Monastery (Mangalore, Karnataka): A Nāth Yogī Performance. 135
PART 3. PATRONAGE AND POPULARISATION
10. Catherine Clémentin-Ojha and Sharad Chandra Ojha: The Royal Patronage of Roving Ascetics in Mid-Nineteenth Century Rajputana. Part I. From Court to Court. 149
11. Anand Mishra: Shifting Parameters of Religious Discourses: A study of the Śrī Satsiddhānta-Mārtaṇḍa. 167
12. Purnima Dhavan: Rām Sukh Rāo's Jassā Singh Binod: A Novel Approach to Writing a Sikh History. 177
13. Ulrike Stark: Publishers as Patrons and the Commodification of Hindu Religious Texts in Nineteenth-Century North India. 189
Autobiographical note by Professor Horstmann. 205
Comprehensive Bibliography of Professor Horstmann. 207

Herausgeberin
HEIDI PAUWELS, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle. Faculty profile.

Gefeierte Persönlichkeit

(Monika Böhm-Tettelbach in Rajasthan. Quelle: SAI-Report 2006)
MONIKA BÖHM-TETTELBACH (nom de plume: Monika Horstmann), emeritierte Professorin für neusprachliche Südasienstudien, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg. Profil-Seite

Quellen: Harrassowitz; Buchhandel.de; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Amazon (Deutschland).

Rückschau
Von der Herausgeberin Heidi Pauwels haben wir in Indologica bereits die folgenden Titel erfaßt:
1. [07.112008] Indian Literature and Popular Cinema
2. [11.11.2008] Goddess as Role Model