Antony copley ed (3 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, small tears and creasing.

First edition. Ownership signature of Prof. Alf Hiltebeitel, Prof of Religion at George Washington University and author/translator of many books on Hindu Sanskrit epics; 303 pages. Fine condition in very good dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. viii, 303 pages ; 21 cm. Summary:Papers presented at the European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, held at Edinburgh in September 2000. Contents: Introduction : debating Indian nationalism and Hindu religious belief / Antony Copley Saffron and Seva : the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda / Gwilym Beckerlegge 'The centre of the religious life of the world' : spiritual universalism and cultural nationalism in the work of Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs Secularizing the sacred cow : the relationship between religious reform and Hindu nationalism / Therese O'Toole Inventing a national past : the case of Ramdev's Bharatvars ka itihas (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tine 'The Hindu woman's right to Samnyasa' : religious movements and the gender question : the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rustau Re-membering the tradition : Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Sajjanatosani and the construction of a middle-class Vaisnava Sampradaya in nineteenth-century Bengal / Jason D. Fuller Mahima Dharma ascetics : a case study on popular asceticism and its patronage structure in rural Orissa / Lidia Julianna Guzy Bhima Bhoi : the making of a modern saint / Johannes Beltz The Seva ethic and the spirit of institution building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission / Maya Warrier.…