Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances

by Schmalz, Mathew N.; Gottschalk, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781438433240
• ISBN10: 1438433247
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-02
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Looks at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to contemporary times.

Author Biography

Mathew N. Schmalz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. Besides writing regularly as a panelist for the Newsweek/Washington Post "On Faith" website, he has published in various books and journals, including The History of Religion, The Journal of Religious Studies, and Method Theory in the Study of Religion. Peter Gottschalk is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India and coauthor (with Gabriel Greenberg) of Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ;x
Introduction: Engaging South Asian Religions	p. 1
Boundaries
A Science of Defining Boundaries: Classification, Categorization, and the Census of India	p. 21
The Repetition of Past Imperialisms: Hegel, Historical Difference, and the Theorization of Indie Religions	p. 39
Beyond National Borders and Religious Boundaries: Muslim and Hindu Veneration of Bonbibi	p. 61
Appropriations
Boundaries and Appropriations in North Indian Charismatic Catholicism	p. 85
The Corpse and Cult of Francis Xavier, 1552-1623	p. 113
Sati or Female Supremacy? Feminist Appropriations of Gotami's Parinirvana	p. 133
Resistances
Resisting My Attackers; Resisting My Defenders: Representing the Shivaji Narratives	p. 153
Resisting Assimilation: Encounters with a Small Islamic Sect in Contemporary Pakistan	p. 173
Climbing through Paradigms	p. 191
Afterword and Responses
Afterword: Scandals, Scholars, Subjects	p. 207
Historical Difference	p. 227
Legend versus Myth	p. 231
Staying With and Thinking Through	p. 233
List of Contributors	p. 235
Index	p. 239
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