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ISBN 10: 0415836034
ISBN 13: 9780415836036
Author: Brian A Hatcher

Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora. Organized to reflect the direction of recent scholarly research, this volume breaks with earlier texts on this subject by seeking to overcome a misleading dichotomy between an elite, intellectualist “modern” Hinduism and the rest of what has so often been misleadingly termed “traditional” or “popular” Hinduism. Without neglecting the significance of modern reformist visions of Hinduism, this book reconceptualizes the meaning of “modern Hinduism” both by expanding its content and by situating its expression within a larger framework of history, ethnography, and contemporary critical theory. This volume equips undergraduate readers with the tools necessary to appreciate the richness and diversity of Hinduism as it has developed during the past two centuries.

Hinduism in the Modern World 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Hinduism Today: Three Perspectives

1. Hinduism in South India

  • Networks of Narratives

  • Hindu Architecture of South India: Networks of Sacrality and Secularity

  • Networks of Deities and Devotion

  • The Goddess

  • The Gods: Vishnu and Shiva in South India

    • Vishnu

    • Shiva

  • Networks of Philosophy

  • Conclusion: Who Owns the Vaults of Vishnu?

  • Summary

  • Questions for Discussion

  • Note

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

2. Hinduism in North India

  • Is There a North Indian Hinduism?

  • The Sacred Landscape of the North

  • Activist Hinduism

    • Environment

    • Anticorruption

    • Hindu Nationalism

    • Entrepreneurial Religion

  • Producing Hinduism in North India

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Note

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

3. Transnational Movements

  • Flows, from Local to Transnational

  • Circulations

  • Necessary Relationships

  • Portable Sociality

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Notes

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

Part II: The Colonial Backdrop

4. Debates within Colonial Hinduism

  • Religious Debates: Modern and Premodern

  • The Valid Sources of Knowledge

  • New Conceptions of God and Religion

  • Moral and Philosophical Debates

  • Caste and Social Change

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Further Reading

  • Bibliography

5. Colonial Devotional Paths

  • Introduction

  • The Colonial Bengali Intelligentsia and the Development of Hindu Modernity

    • Early Movements of Modernist Reform—1820s–1860s

    • Colonial India and Modernity’s Challenge to Hindu Theistic Piety

    • Vaishnava Bhakti and Revivalism—1870s–1880s

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

6. Hinduism and Colonial Law

  • Hindu Households and Women

  • Hindu Temple Practices and Institutions

  • Hindu Law and the Personal Law System

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Questions for Discussion

  • Acknowledgments

  • Notes

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

Part III: Movements and Relocations

7. Hinduism in Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, and Trinidad

  • Hinduism in the Diaspora

    • Fiji

    • Mauritius

    • South Africa

    • Trinidad

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

8. Hinduism in Britain

  • The Passage to Britain

  • The Perpetuation and Transmission of Hindu Traditions

  • Hindu Umbrella Organizations

  • Multiculturalism and Representational Politics

  • A Strident, Assertive Hindu Consciousness

  • The Public Visibility of Vaishnava Strands in British Hinduism

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Notes

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

9. Hinduism in the United States

  • Re-creating Hinduism in America

  • Representing Hinduism and Hindu Interests in America

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Notes

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

Part IV: Networks of Meaning

10. Modern Monks and Global Hinduism

  • Monkish Mimesis between and beyond Modernity and Tradition

  • Media-Savvy Monks, the War of Images, and Sacred Vision

  • Indian Christians, Neo-Hindu Holy Men, and the Oriental Christ of the West

  • Individualism, World Renouncers, and Autobiography

  • Modern Monks and Colonial Critique

  • Conclusion: From Convergence to the Coincidence of Opposites

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

11. Modern Yoga and Tantra

  • Defining Yoga and Tantra

  • Roots of Yoga and Tantra: Premodern and Early Modern Periods

  • Late Modern Period: Eighteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries

  • Postmodern/Contemporary Yoga and Tantra

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Note

  • Suggested Reading

  • Bibliography

12. Renunciation and Domesticity

  • The Good Life

  • The Contemplative Life

  • A Debate Lasting Two Millennia

  • The Middle Ground

  • Renunciation as Argument

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Notes

  • Selected Readings

  • Bibliography

13. Vedic Sacrifice in Modern India

  • Decline of Vedic Ritual

  • Vedic Ritual Today

  • Substitutions

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

14. Visual and Media Culture

  • The Centrality of the Visual in Everyday Hinduism

  • Encountering the Divine through New Media

  • Visual Media and the Changing Hindu Pantheon

  • Envisioning the Place of Religion in India Today

  • Conclusion: Image Making in Modern Hinduism

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Suggested Reading

  • Bibliography

Part V: Critical Social and Political Issues

15. Public Hinduism and Hindutva

  • The Evolution of Public Hinduism: Ancient to Modern

  • Hinduism and Hindutva

  • Public Hinduism-Hindutva Interface in Postcolonial India

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

16. Caste and Untouchability

  • ‘Varna’: An Ideology of Social Hierarchy

  • Caste Differences and the Caste Difference

  • Dalit Difference: In Their Own Eyes and in the Eyes of Others

  • Dalits and Hinduism

  • Are Dalits Hindus?

  • Do Dalits ‘Accept’ Caste?

  • Dalits, Hinduism, and the Postcolonial Indian State

  • Conclusion: Dalits, Race, and International Solidarity

  • Summary

  • Questions for Discussion

  • Notes

  • Suggested Readings and Films

  • Bibliography

17. Gender and Sexuality

  • Continuing Debates

  • Violence and Religion?

  • Goddesses and Kinship

  • Divinity, Gender, and Sex

  • Alternatives to Marriage

  • Sexual Expression

  • Love, Marriage, and Rebirth

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Notes

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

18. Hinduism and Environmentalism in Modern India

  • A (Very) Brief Environmental History of India

  • Anti- and Pro-Environmental Ethics in Brahmanical Hinduism

  • Popular Tamil Hinduism and the Preservation of Sacred Groves

  • The Influence of Reform Hinduism in the Chipko Movement

  • Conclusion

  • Summary

  • Discussion Questions

  • Notes

  • Suggested Readings

  • Bibliography

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