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200 04$aThe guru in South Asia $enew interdisciplinary perspectives /$fedited by Jacob Copeman and Aya Ikegame
210  1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (270 p.)
225 1 $aRoutledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-138-78522-9 
311   $a0-415-51019-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; The Guru in South Asia: New interdisciplinary perspectives; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The multifarious guru: An introduction; 2 The governing guru: Hindu mathas in liberalising India; 3 The slave guru: Masters, commanders, and disciples in early modern South Asia; 4 The political guru: The guru as e?minence grise; 5 The gay guru: Fallibility, unworldliness, and the scene of instruction; 6 The female guru: Guru, gender, and the path of personal experience; 7 The dreamed guru: The entangled lives of the amil and the anthropologist
327   $a8 The mimetic guru: Tracing the real in Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda relations9 The mediated guru: Simplicity, instantaneity and change in middle-class religious seeking; 10 The cosmopolitan guru: Spiritual tourism and ashrams in Rishikesh; 11 The literary guru: The dual emphasis on bhakti and vidhi in western Indian guru-devotion; 12 Continuities as gurus change; Index
330   $aThis book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a source of religious and philosophical knowledge and mystical bodily practices. This book goes further and considers the social engagements and entanglements of these spiritual leaders, not just on their
410  0$aRoutledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series.
606   $aGurus$zSouth Asia
606   $aReligion and sociology$zSouth Asia
606   $aReligion and politics$zSouth Asia
606   $aReligion$xEconomic aspects$zSouth Asia
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aGurus
615  0$aReligion and sociology
615  0$aReligion and politics
615  0$aReligion$xEconomic aspects
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