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Hinduism in public and private : reform, Hindutva, gender, and sampraday / edited by Antony Copley.

Contributor(s): Copley, A. R. H. (Antony R. H.), 1937-2016
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: viii, 303 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195663934Subject(s): Hinduism and politics -- India | Hinduism and social problems -- India | Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- HinduismLOC classification: BL1215.P65 | H54 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: debating Indian nationalism and Hindu religious belief / Antony Copley -- Saffron and Seva: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda / Gwilym Beckerlegge -- 'The centre of the religious life of the world': spiritual universalism and cultural nationalism in the work of Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs -- Secularizing the sacred cow: the relationship between religious reform and Hindu nationalism / Therese O'Toole -- Inventing a national past: the case of Ramdev's Bhāratvarṣ kā itihās (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- The Hindu woman's right to Saṁnyāsa': religious movements and the gender question: the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rüstau -- Re-membering the tradition: Bhaktivindoa Thākura's Sajjanaṭosanī and the construction of a middle-class Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya in nineteenth-century Bengal / Jason D. Fuller -- Mahima Dharma ascetics: a case study on popular asceticism and its patronage structure in rural Orissa / Lidia Julianna Guzy -- Bhima Bhoi: the making of a modern saint / Johannes Beltz -- The Seva ethic and the spirit of institution building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission / Maya Warrier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: debating Indian nationalism and Hindu religious belief / Antony Copley -- Saffron and Seva: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda / Gwilym Beckerlegge -- 'The centre of the religious life of the world': spiritual universalism and cultural nationalism in the work of Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs -- Secularizing the sacred cow: the relationship between religious reform and Hindu nationalism / Therese O'Toole -- Inventing a national past: the case of Ramdev's Bhāratvarṣ kā itihās (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- The Hindu woman's right to Saṁnyāsa': religious movements and the gender question: the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rüstau -- Re-membering the tradition: Bhaktivindoa Thākura's Sajjanaṭosanī and the construction of a middle-class Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya in nineteenth-century Bengal / Jason D. Fuller -- Mahima Dharma ascetics: a case study on popular asceticism and its patronage structure in rural Orissa / Lidia Julianna Guzy -- Bhima Bhoi: the making of a modern saint / Johannes Beltz -- The Seva ethic and the spirit of institution building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission / Maya Warrier.

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