Empire, religion, and identity: modern South Asia and the global circulation of ideas

"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...

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Other Authors: Mukherjee, Soumen (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2024]
Series:Brill's Indological library volume 59
In: Brill's Indological library (volume 59)

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Author Notes:by Soumen Mukherjee
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Religion, Identity, and South Asia's Global Entanglements since the fin de siècle: An Introduction / Soumen Mukherjee
  • Part I. 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 II. 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.