Aravamudan Guru English

South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2685-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Translation/Transnation

Srinivas Aravamudan is Associate Professor of English and Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. He is the author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aravamudan, Srinivas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter One: Theolinguistics: Orientalists, Brahmos, Vedantins, and Yogis 26

Chapter Two: From Indian Romanticism to Guru Literature 63

Chapter Three: Theosophistries 105

Chapter Four: The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural 142

Chapter Five: Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism 184

Chapter Six: New Age Enchantments 220

Afterword 265

Notes 271

Index 313

Über Autor(innen)

Srinivas Aravamudan is Associate Professor of English and Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. He is the author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804.