Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and ResistancesMathew N. Schmalz, Peter Gottschalk Focusing on boundaries, appropriations, and resistances involved in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this edited volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial period in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It pays particular attention to contemporary controversies surrounding the study of South Asian religions, including several scholars' reflection on the contentious reaction to their own work. Other chapters consider such issues as British colonial epistemologies, the relevance of Hegel for the study of South Asia, the canonization of Francis Xavier, feminist interpretations of the mother of the Buddha, and theological dispute among Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan. By using the themes of boundaries, appropriations and resistances, this work offers insight into the dynamics and diversity of Western approaches to South Asian religions, and the indigenous responses to them, that avoids simple active/passive binaries. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Part One BOUNDARIES | 19 |
Classification Categorizationand the Census of India | 21 |
Hegel Historical Difference and the Theorization of Indic Religions | 39 |
Muslim and Hindu Veneration of Bonbibi | 61 |
Part Two APPROPRIATIONS | 83 |
4 BOUNDARIES AND APPROPRIATIONS IN NORTH INDIAN CHARISMATIC CATHOLICISM | 85 |
5 THE CORPSE AND CULT OF FRANCIS XAVIER 15521623 | 113 |
Encounters with a Small Islamic Sectin Contemporary Pakistan | 173 |
9 CLIMBING THROUGH PARADIGMS | 191 |
AFTERWORD AND RESPONSES | 205 |
Scandals Scholars Subjects | 207 |
Historical Difference | 227 |
Legend versus Myth | 231 |
Staying With and Thinking Through | 233 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 235 |
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