LEADER 04318nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910461143003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-13332-6 010 $a9786613133328 010 $a1-4008-2685-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826858 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095260 035 $a(EBL)713604 035 $a(OCoLC)730151764 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523044 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11341017 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523044 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539228 035 $a(PQKB)11445957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC713604 035 $a(OCoLC)733555318 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36390 035 $a(DE-B1597)448067 035 $a(OCoLC)979745014 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826858 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL713604 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477110 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL313332 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095260 100 $a20041222d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGuru English$b[electronic resource] $eSouth Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language /$fSrinivas Aravamudan 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 225 1 $aTranslation/transnation 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11827-2 311 $a0-691-11828-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-311) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Theolinguistics: Orientalists, Brahmos, Vedantins, and Yogis -- $tCHAPTER TWO. From Indian Romanticism to Guru Literature -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Theosophistries -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism -- $tCHAPTER SIX. New Age Enchantments -- $tAFTERWORD -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aGuru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age. 410 0$aTranslation/transnation. 606 $aEnglish language$xReligious aspects$zSouth Asia 606 $aEnglish language$xSocial aspects$zSouth Asia 606 $aReligion and culture 606 $aCosmopolitanism$zIndia 607 $aSouth Asia$xReligion$xStudy and teaching 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish language$xReligious aspects 615 0$aEnglish language$xSocial aspects 615 0$aReligion and culture. 615 0$aCosmopolitanism 676 $a420/.954 700 $aAravamudan$b Srinivas$01027654 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461143003321 996 $aGuru English$92443229 997 $aUNINA