Public Hinduisms

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This text presents an account of the complex processes through which questions about Hinduism can be examined and understood, and analyses critically the way Hinduism is produced and represented as an established feature of public landscapes.

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Full title :Public Hinduisms / edited by John Zavos [and others].

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
Place of Publication:Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 507 pages, [12] pages of color plates : : color illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9788132107408, 8132107403
oclc:ocn791685041
LC Classification:BL1215.C76
Dewey Decimal:294.5/17

List of plates -- Preface -- Section A: Researching public Hinduisms / edited by John Zavos -- Public Hinduisms : an introduction / John Zavos -- Will the real mango please stand up? : reflections on defending Dharma and historicising Hinduism / Shana Sippy -- Engaging the "practitioner" : boundary politics in the academic study of Hinduism / Maya Warrier -- Snapshot : scholars and practitioners, a personal reflection / Raymond Brady Williams -- Section B: Ecumenical constructions / edited by Raymond Brady Williams -- Ecumenical constructions : an introduction / Raymond Brady Williams -- Hindu organisation and the negotiation of public space in contemporary Britain / John Zavos -- What is American about American Hinduism? : Hindu umbrella organisations in the United States in comparative perspective / Prema Kurien -- Snapshot : devotional fandom : the Madhuri Dixit temple of Pappu Sardar / Shalini Kakar -- Fusing the ideals of the math with the ideology of the Sangh : Vivekananda Kendra, ecumenical Hinduism and Hindu nationalism / Pralay Kanungo -- Sathya Sai Baba : at home abroad in midwestern America / Chad Bauman -- Snapshot : "practising Hindus", Hindutva and multiculturalism …

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