Hindu Pluralism
：Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
( South Asia Across the Disciplines )
Publication subTitle ：Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
Publication series ：South Asia Across the Disciplines
Author： Fisher > Elaine M.
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9780520966291
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520293014
Subject： B982 Brahmanism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
Keyword： 婆罗门教、印度教、耆那教、锡克教,宗教
Language： ENG
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In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.
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