Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances by Schmalz, Mathew N.

Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781438433233)

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Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances by Schmalz, Mathew N.

Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances

$95.00
Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances by Schmalz, Mathew N.

Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Mathew N. Schmalz
ISBN-10: 1438433239
ISBN-13: 9781438433233
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2011
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs

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Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 9
By Mathew N. Schmalz
By Mathew N. Schmalz
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Mathew N. Schmalz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. Besides writing regularly as a panelist for the Newsweek/Washington Post "On Faith" website, he has published in various books and journals, including The History of Religion, The Journal of Religious Studies, and Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.

Peter Gottschalk is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India and coauthor (with Gabriel Greenberg) of Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy.

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