Hinduism in public and private :

Hinduism in public and private : reform, Hindutva, gender, and Sampraday / edited by Antony Copley. - New Delhi ; New York : Oxford India Paperbacks, 2009. - viii, 303 p. ; 21 cm. - Oxford India paperbacks .

Originally published: New Dehli : Oxford University Press, c2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Bhāratvarṣ kā itihās (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- 'The Hindu woman's right to Saṁnyāsa' : religious movements and the gender question : the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rüstau -- Re-membering the tradition : Bhaktivinoda Thākura's Sajjanaṭosanī and the construction of a middle-class Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya 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.

Papers presented at the European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, held at Edinburgh in September 2000.

9780198062820 (pbk.) 0198062826 (pbk.)

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Hinduism and politics--India.
Hinduism and state--India.
Hinduism and social problems--India.
Nationalism--India.
Nationalism--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
Secularism--India.

BL1215.P65 / H54 2009

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