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Auteur(s) : Hatcher, Brian A.
Titre(s) : Hinduism before reform [Texte imprimé] / Brian A. Hatcher
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-321 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 281-303. Index
"By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline and the East India
Company was making in-roads into the subcontinent with an eye on spices, indigo, and
opium. A century later, Christian missionaries, Hindu "reformers," Muslim saints,
and Sikh rebels formed the colorful religious fabric of colonial India. Through a
focus on two distinct nineteenth-century Hindu religious communities and their charismatic
leaders-the "cosmopolitan" Rammohun Roy and the "parochial" Swami Narayan, whose influences
continue to be felt in contemporary Indian religious life-Hatcher tells us the story
of how urban and rural people thought about faith, ritual, and gods. Along the way,
he sketches a radical new way of thinking about the origins of modern Hinduism. Written
as a challenge to the rigid structure of revelation-schism-reform-sect prevalent in
much of religious studies, Hinduism Before Reform invites us to reconsider the very
idea of religious reform. The category of reform has played an important role in how
we think about two of the most influential Hindu movements of the modern era, the
Swaminarayan Sampraday of Gujarat and the Brahmo Samaj of Bengal. The lens of reform
characterizes the Swaminarayan Sampraday as backward looking in contrast to the progressive
modernity of the Brahmo Samaj. From such a comparison flow a host of conclusions about
religious modernity and the Indian nation. Hindusim Before Reform asks how things
would look if one eschewed the vocabulary of reform entirely. Is there another way
to conceptualize the origins and significance of these two Hindu movements, one that
does not trap them within the teleology of a predetermined modernity?"
Sujet(s) : Rammohun Roy, Raja (1772?-1833)
Sahajānanda, Swami (1781-1830)
Sectes hindoues -- Inde -- 19e siècle
Renouveau religieux -- Hindouisme -- Inde -- 19e siècle
Svāmī-nārāyaṇī
Brāhmasamāj
Indice(s) Dewey :
294.556 2 (23e éd.) = Brahmo Samaj
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-674-98822-4 (rel.). - ISBN 0674988221. - ISBN 9780674247130 (erroné). -
ISBN 0674247132 (erroné)
EAN 9780674988224
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46599151c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46599151
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Before Reform -- ; Fluid Landscapes -- ; Polities before Publics -- ; On the road
with Nilakantha -- ; Upcountry with Rammohun -- ; Guru's Rules -- ; Raja's Darbar
-- ; Empire of Reform -- ; Old Comparisons and New.
