1st Edition
Religious Traditions in South Asia Interaction and Change
By Geoffrey Oddie
Copyright 1998
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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These studies focus on questions of religious interaction and change in India from the sixth century B.C. to the present day. They represent the work of scholars in a range of disciplines and who are resident mostly in Australia
Problems of the interpretation of the data pertaining to religious interaction in ancient India - the conversion stories in the Sutta Nipata, Greg Bailey; Islamization in South Asia with special reference to the Bengali-speaking region - a conceptual and historical revaluation, Asmin Roy; Millenarianism in India - the movement of Birsa Munda, Victoria Luker; the negative component of Hindu consciousness, Kenneth W. Jones; the role of science in the Hindu-Christian encounter, Lynette E.L. Thistlethwayte; the great gulf fixed - Samuel Stokes and the brotherhood of the imitation of Jesus, William Emilsen; Swami Abhisiktananda (Henri Le Saux, OSB) and Advaita - the account of a spiritual journey, Michael Comans; patience with the weak, Eric J. Sharpe; Leipzig Lutherans and the caste question in 19th-century South India, Eric J. Sharpe; vision at Velim - the meaning of a miracle in Goa, Robert S. Newman.
Biography
Geoffrey A. Oddie
'This is an important book.' - Amalendu Misra, Journal of Asian History
