Empire, Religion, and Identity

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68515-4
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

This collection brings together case studies that cover a wide spectrum: from Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina traditions through reformist ventures such as the Brahmos, to issues in modern Islam and Judaism.

The first part of the book explores idioms of self-fashioning in global platforms and religious congresses. The second part explicates the nature of movements of such ideas. Cumulatively, they offer fresh and invaluable insights into their histories in modern South Asia against the backdrop of, and in relation to, wider transcultural global flows.

Contributors: Soumen Mukherjee, Toshio Akai, Jeffery D. Long, Arpita Mitra, Philip Goldberg, Ankur Barua, Oyndrila Sarkar, Madhuparna Roychowdhury, Navras J. Aafreedi, and Faridah Zaman.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Soumen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Religion, Identity, and South Asia’s Global Entanglements since the fin de siècle: An Introduction

Soumen Mukherjee

Part 1 Idioms of Self-Fashioning and International Congresses

2 Buddhism in the Parliament of World’s Religions, 1893: The Japanese Buddhists and Anagarika Dharmapala

Toshio Akai

3 Emissary of Nonviolence: Virchand Gandhi and the Chicago World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893

Jeffery D. Long

4 The Burden of ‘History’: The Paris Congress of the History of Religions of 1900 and Its Legacy

Arpita Mitra

5 In Illustrious Footsteps: Yogananda and the 1920 Congress of Religious Liberals

Philip Goldberg

Part 2 Ideas, Movements, and Global Flows

6 The Brahmo Universalism of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar (1840–1905): Harmonising Reason and Revelation in the New Dispensation

Ankur Barua

7 Visualising Spaces of Knowledge in the Himalayas: 1830–1917

Oyndrila Sarkar

8 Buddhist Revival and Public Culture in India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Madhuparna Roychowdhury

9 Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish Identities in Modern South Asia

Navras J. Aafreedi

10 The Khilafat Movement in Europe and the Reimagining of Authority in Islam

Faridah Zaman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Soumen Mukherjee, Dr.phil. (2010), University of Heidelberg, teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata. His publications include the Karim and Rosemin Karim prize-winning book Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (Cambridge University Press, 2017).