Routledge South Asian Religion Series
Ritual Journeys in South Asia: Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space
1st Edition
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By Christoph Bergmann, Jürgen Schaflechner
June 30, 2021
This book focuses on the ritualized forms of mobility that constitute phenomena of pilgrimage in South Asia and establishes a new analytical framework for the study of ritual journeys.The book advances the conceptual scope of ‘classical’ Pilgrimage Studies and provides empirical depth through ...
The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity
1st Edition
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By Shalva Weil
June 30, 2021
This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after India gained ...
Religion and Technology in India: Spaces, Practices and Authorities
1st Edition
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By Knut A. Jacobsen, Kristina Myrvold
August 14, 2020
Religion tends to flourish when technological developments create new possibilities for communication and representation, and simultaneously change as a consequence of these developments.This book explores intersections between religion and technology in India, at the present and in the colonial ...
Religion, Space and Conflict in Sri Lanka: Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
1st Edition
By Elizabeth J. Harris
August 14, 2020
Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict. It bears the weight of human dreams and fears. Conflict is caused not only by spatial exclusivism but also by an inclusivism that seeks harmony through subordinating the particularity of the Other to the world view of the majority.This book uses ...
Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living with Bengali Bauls
1st Edition
By Kristin Hanssen
August 14, 2020
Noted for their haunting melodies and enigmatic lyrics, Bauls have been portrayed as spiritually enlightened troubadours traveling around the countryside in West Bengal in India and in Bangladesh.As emblems of Bengali culture, Bauls have long been a subject of scholarly debates which center on ...
Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga
1st Edition
By Knut A. Jacobsen
August 14, 2020
The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This tradition...
Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Anne Murphy
July 31, 2015
Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and...
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site: Bodh Gaya Jataka
1st Edition
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By David Geary, Matthew Sayers, Abhishek Singh Amar
September 11, 2014
Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion – to highlight their ...
Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing
1st Edition
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By Fabrizio Ferrari
February 25, 2014
Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in...
Parsis in India and the Diaspora
1st Edition
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By John Hinnells, Julian Williams
February 21, 2012
The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. As pioneers in education in nineteenth century India, and as leading figures in banking and commerce, medicine, law and journalism, they were at the forefront of India's industrial ...
Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism
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By Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, Rajaram Hegde
September 14, 2011
This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as ...
South Asian Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora
1st Edition
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By Knut A. Jacobsen
April 29, 2009
Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. Processions are central not only in Hinduism, but also Islam, Christianity, Jainism and Sikhism, which have large procession rituals. The last years have seen an increase in processions and ritualizations of space both ...