Ancient to Modern

Banerjee-Dube, Ishita [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Ancient to modern : religion, power, and community in India / ed. by Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Saurabh Dube. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009. - X, 388 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-569662-2
Rs. 750,00
US$ 16,30 (Eastern Book Corp.)
DDC: 200.954
Gleichzeitig Festschrift für David N. Lorenzen.

Beschreibung
Religion, power, and community are major issues in twenty-first century India. Ancient to Modern analyses these intertwined issues from various perspectives across different regions of India. It reflects on recent historiography and opens up spaces for dialogue and debate.
   The essays explore different aspects of religion in the context of identity formation and articulation of power. From discussions of heretical and ascetic practices in the ancient and medieval period to everyday expressions of caste and community in the modern and contemporary era, they straddle scholarship on Hinduism as well as Christianity.
   Eminent contributors combine history and anthropology, archival work and field research, and textual analysis and theoretical exegesis in essays written specifically for this volume. Through diverse approaches, each chapter probes and unsettles established understandings and accepted verities, opening up themes for critical reflection across different periods.
   A substantive introduction highlights critical questions in the historical study of religion and power in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia. Dedicated to David N. Lorenzen - a renowned scholar of cultural history and popular religion in pre-colonial India - the introduction also provides a short intellectual portrait. [Verlagsinformation]

Besprechung von Rajan Gurukkal: "Essays on religion, power, community", in: The Hindu, vom 5. Mai 2009 (Online verfügbar).

Inhalt
List of illustrations. ix
Preface. xi
Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Saurabh Dube: Introduction. 1
1. Romila Thapar: The Purāṇas : Heresy and the 'Vaṃśānucarita'. 28
2. R. Champakalakshmi: Śaṅkara and Purāṇic Religion. 49
3. David Gordon White: 'Never have I seen such Yogis, brother': Yogis, warriors, and sorcerers in ancient and medieval India. 86
4. Benjamin Preciado-Solis: Visualizations of the horrific in Buddhist Tantric Literature. 114
5. Purushottam Agrawal: In search of Ramanand: The Guru of Kabir and others. 135
6. Linda Hess: Fighting over Kabir's dead body. 171
7. Ines G. Zupanov: Orientalist Museum: Roman missionary collections and prints. 207
8. Thomas R. Trautmann: The missionary and the orientialist. 236
9. Saurabh Dube: Witnessing lives: Conversion and live history in Colonial Central India. 259
10. Frank F. Conlon: Speaking of caste? Colonial and indigenous interpretations of caste and community in nineteenth-century Bombay. 291
11. John Stratton Hawley: Sanatana Dharma as the twentieth century began: Two textbooks, two languages. 312
12. Ishita Banerjee-Dube: Customs and Canons: Bhima Bhoi in the literary tradition of Orissa. 337
13. Daniel Gold: Living above Hippopotamus Street: Religion and community in working class North India. 356
Note on contributors. 387

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