ISBN10: 9004242368, ISBN13: 9789004242364, [publisher: BRILL] Hardcover Hardcover with printed covers. Light shelfwear, otherwise as new. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. No highlighting.
[Rochester, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]

Leiden: Brill, Date: 2013. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. xxv, (1), 302pp. Index. Pictorial boards with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. Illustrated with several text figures (some in color). A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences. Moving away from canonical texts, established authorities, and received historiography, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological perspectives including philosophy, history, hermeneutics, migration and diaspora studies, ethnography, performance studies, lived religion approaches, and aesthetics. Reflecting a balance of theory and substantive content, the papers in this volume call into question key critical terms, challenge established frames of reference, and offer innovative and alternative interpretations of South Asian ways of knowing and being. (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Preface and Introduction: Re-imagining South Asian Religions; Part I Reflections on the Field; Traditional Sanskrit and Modern Scholarship:A Personal Journey; A Modest Retrospective; Part II New Orientations, Globalization, and Pedagogy; Re-Imagining Sikhi ('Sikhness') in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Paradigm Shift in Sikh Studies; The P ...

ISBN10: 9004242368, ISBN13: 9789004242364, [publisher: Brill, Leiden] Hardcover Octavo. xxv, (1), 302pp. Index. Pictorial boards with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. Illustrated with several text figures (some in color). A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences. Moving away from canonical texts, established authorities, and received historiography, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological perspectives including philosophy, history, hermeneutics, migration and diaspora studies, ethnography, performance studies, lived religion approaches, and aesthetics. Reflecting a balance of theory and substantive content, the papers in this volume call into question key critical terms, challenge established frames of reference, and offer innovative and alternative interpretations of South Asian ways of knowing and being. (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Preface and Introduction: Re-imagining South Asian Religions; Part I Reflections on the Field; Traditional Sanskrit and Modern Scholarship:A Personal Journey; A Modest Retrospective; Part II New Orientations, Globalization, and Pedagogy; Re-Imagining Sikhi ('Sikhness') in the Twenty-First Century: ...

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