1st Edition

The Guru in South Asia New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

272 Pages

by Routledge

272 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a... Read more

1. The Multifarious Guru: An Introduction Jacob Copeman and Aya Ikegame 2. The Governing Guru: Hindu Mathas In Liberalising India Aya Ikegame 3. The Slave Guru: Masters, Commanders, and Disciples In Early Modern South Asia William R. Pinch 4. The Political Guru: The Guru as Éminence Grise Christophe Jaffrelot 5. The Gay Guru: Fallibility, Unworldliness, and the Scene Of Instruction Lawrence Cohen 6. The Female Guru: Guru, Gender, and the Path Of Personal Experience Karen Pechilis 7. The Dreamed Guru: The Entangled Lives of the Amil and the Anthropologist Veena Das 8. The Mimetic Guru: Tracing the Real in Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda Relations Jacob Copeman 9. The Mediated Guru: Simplicity, Instantaneity and Change in Middle-Class Religious Seeking Kathinka Frøystad 10. The Cosmopolitan Guru: Spiritual Tourism and Ashrams In Rishikesh Meena Khandelwal 11. The Literary Guru: The Dual Emphasis on Bhakti and Vidhi In Western Indian Guru-Devotion Jeremy Morse 12. Continuities As Gurus Change Daniel Gold