03593oam 22008894a 450 991016664910332120230621135718.00-520-96629-510.1525/9780520966291(CKB)3710000001092108(DE-B1597)539702(DE-B1597)9780520966291(OCoLC)1085399755(MdBmJHUP)muse72984(OCoLC)961098588(ScCtBLL)e1f66289-3af2-420c-8e45-f799e789a626(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38525(EXLCZ)99371000000109210820161007h20172017 uy 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHindu PluralismReligion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India /Elaine M. FisherUniversity of California Press2017Oakland, California :University of California Press,2017.©20171 online resource (xi, 285 pages) illustrations (colour), map; digital, PDF file(s)South Asia across the disciplinesPrint version: 0520293010 Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-267) and index.Hindu sectarianism: difference in unity -- "Just like Kālidāsa": the making of the Smārta-Śaiva community of South India -- Public philology: constructing sectarian identities in early modern South India -- The language games of Śaiva: mapping text and space in public religious culture -- Conclusion: a prehistory of Hindu pluralism."Much has been written about the historical origins of the unity of Hinduism. Hindu difference has been read through the lens of the term "sectarianism," a concept that translates devotion as dissent, and community as a potential precursor to communalism. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine. M. Fisher argues that it is the plurality of Hindu religious identities, and their embodiment and contestation in public space, that first reveals the emergence of Hinduism as a unified religion in south India and an integral feature of a distinctively Indic early modernity prior to British Colonialism."--Provided by publisher.South Asia across the disciplines.Religious pluralismIndia, SouthHinduismIndia, SouthIndia, SouthReligionElectronic books. academic.britain.british colony.colonial.colonialism.eastern religion.hindu.hinduism.india.literary analysis.luminos.modernity.pluralism.post colonial.precolonial.public life.public space.religion.religious identity.religious pluralism.religious studies.sanskrit.scholarly.sectarianism.tamil.telegu.unification.world religion.Religious pluralismHinduism294.50954/8Fisher Elaine M.1984-996853MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910166649103321Hindu pluralism2285880UNINA