Re-imagining South Asian religions : essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.

• Superior document: Numen book series, studies in the history of religions ; 141
• TeilnehmendeR: Pashaura Singh.; Hawley, Michael; Coward, Harold G.; Neufeldt, Ronald W. 1941-
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; v. 141.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences. Moving away from canonical texts, established authorities, and received historiography, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological perspectives including philosophy, history, hermeneutics, migration and diaspora studies, ethnography, performance studies, lived religion approaches, and aesthetics. Reflecting a balance of theory and substantive content, the papers in this volume call into question key critical terms, challenge established frames of reference, and offer innovative and alternative interpretations of South Asian ways of knowing and being.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Traditional Sanskrit and Modern Scholarship: A Personal Journey / Harold G. Coward -- A Modest Retrospective / Ronald W. Neufeldt -- Re-imagining Sikhi (‘Sikhness’ ) in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Paradigm Shift in Sikh Studies / Pashaura Singh -- The Politics of Perspectivalism: Anekāntavāda as a Counter-anthropologising Strategy / Tinu Ruparell -- Rewriting the Hindu Traditions from Global Perspectives / Vasudha Narayanan -- Pedagogy in the Janam-sakhis: ‘Teaching Texts’ Moving Past Old Categories / Toby Braden Johnson -- Re-imagining Religious History through Women’s Song Performance at the Kāmākhyā Temple Site / Patricia Α. Dold -- Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Performance: Ritual Practice and Cultural Preservation in the Tibetan Diaspora / Sarah F. Haynes -- ‘Performance’ and ‘Lived Religion’ Approaches as New Ways of ‘Re-imagining’ Sikh Studies / Charles M. Townsend -- Re-imagining Theosophy through Canadian Art: Indian Theosophical Influences on the Painting and Writing of Lawren Harris / Michael Stoeber -- Re-imagining Hindu Beginnings in Canada / Paul Younger -- The Indianness of Christianity: The Task of Re-imagination / Dyron B. Daughrity -- M. K. Gandhi and the Sikhs: Violence, Religious Identity, and Competing Modernities / Michael Hawley -- Index.