Charisma and Canon Essays on the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent

by Dalmia, Vasudha; Malinar, Angelika; Christof, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780195666205
• ISBN10: 0195666208
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The essays in this volume offer vivid glimpses of the interdependence and interaction which formed a vital component of the various religious traditions of South Asia, of their particular selection from the same storehouse of key texts, and of their overlapping but also sharp demarcations from each other. This volume will interest students, researchers, and scholars in history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, and area specialists on South Asia.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(13)
Vasudha Dalmia
Angelika Malinar
Martin Christof
Charisma and Canon: The Dynamics of Legitimization and Innovation in Indian Religions	14	(27)
Heinrich von Stietencron
Religious Authority in Medieval and Pre-modern India
The Formation of Srivaisnavism	41	(21)
Friedhelm Hardy
The Legitimation of Textual Authority in the Bhagavatapurana	62	(15)
Martin Christof
The Saiva Siddhanta Acarya as Mediator of Religious Identity	77	(16)
Jorg Gengnagel
Sankara as Jagadguru According to Sankara-Digvijaya	93	(20)
Angelika Malinar
Madhva and the Reform of Vaisnavism in Karnataka	113	(16)
Robert J. Zydenbos
Forging Community: The Guru in a Seventeenth-century Vaisnava Hagiography	129	(26)
Vasudha Dalmia
Institutionalization of Charisma: The Case of Sahajananda	155	(16)
Peter Schreiner
Charisma, Transfer of Charisma and Canon in North Indian Bhakti	171	(12)
Monika Horstmann
A Mid-nineteenth-century Controversy over Religious Authority	183	(22)
Catherine Clementin-Ojha
Prophets of the Modern Age
The Re-enactment of Guru Nanak's Charisma in an Early-twentieth-century Panjabi Narrative	205	(18)
Denis Matringe
Gandhi as Mahatma: Political Semantics in an Age of Cultural Ambiguity	223	(27)
Dieter Conrad
A Religion for Civil Society? Ambedkar's Buddhism, the Dalit Issue and the Imagination of Emergent Possibilities	250	(24)
Martin Fuchs
Swadhyaya and the `Stream' of Religious Revitalization	274	(19)
Gita Dharampal-Frick
The Advent of the Avatar: The Urban Following of Sathya Sai Baba and its Construction of Tradition	293	(20)
Smriti Srinivas
Convergences and Contestations: Contemporary Trends
Fluid Canons and Shared Charisma: On Success and Failure of a Ritual Performance in a South Indian Oral Tradition	313	(15)
Heidrun Bruckner
Canonicity and Divine Interference: The Tulkus and the Shugden-Controversy	328	(22)
Michael von Bruck
Ananda Yoga: A Contemporary Crossing between Sufism and Hinduism	350	(10)
Gian Giuseppe Filippi
Thomas Dahnhardt
Resistant Ginans and the Quest for an Ismaili and Islamic Identity among the Khojas	360	(16)
Francoise Mallison
Canons, Charismas and Identities in Modern Islam	376	(12)
Jamal Malik
The Vishva Hindu Parishad: A Nationalist but Mimetic Attempt at Federating the Hindu Sects	388	(24)
Christophe Jaffrelot
Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology: The Voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara	412	(21)
Tanika Sarkar
Oppositional Tellings in the Ramayana Tradition	433	(19)
Paula Richman
Select Bibliography of the Writings of Heinrich von Stietencron	452	(6)
Note on Contributors	458