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Religion and Public Culture Encounters and Identities in Modern South India
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life and religious tradition in South India. Essays in this collection attempt to explore the intricacies of what is perhaps the single most complex socio-religious environment in the world. The essays... Read more
Part 1 Orthodoxies; Chapter 1 The Construction of Hinduism as a Public Religion: Looking Again at the Religious Roots of Company Raj in South India, Robert Eric Frykenberg; Chapter 2 Acting in Public versus Forming a Public: Conflict Processing and Political Mobilization in Nineteenth Century South India, Pamela G. Price; Chapter 3 The Significance of Episcopal Extension for Church-State Relations in British India, Susan Billington Harper; Chapter 4 The Drama of Conversion in the Courts of South India: Challenges to Aggressive Missionary Enterprise and Changing Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century, John J. Paul; Chapter 5 Routinized Charisma: the Case of Aurobindo and Auroville, Robert K. Minor; Chapter 6 Dissolving One Paradox and Discovering Another: Pillan's Interpretation of Nammalvar's Poem, John B. Carman; Chapter 7 Memories of Brahman Agraharam in Travancore, Pauline Kolenda; Part 2 Heterodoxies; Chapter 8 Cult Saints, Heroes, and Warrior Kings: South Asian Islam in the Making, Susan Bayly; Chapter 9 Persons East and West, Keith E. Yandell; Chapter 10 The Heterodoxies in Tamil Nadu, James D. Ryan;
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'An excellent study of the formation of religious publics, their interaction with each other and with other publics. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the religious history of India.' - Hindu-Christian Studies
