Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle /: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven E. Lindquist.
• Other Names: Olivelle, Patrick; Lindquist, Steven E
• Contents: Introduction: Patrick Olivelle and indology; major publications of Patrick Olivelle -- Word, text, context. The elusive snātaka / Timothy Lubin -- Who gets to live forever in ancient India? Rethinking āyus ("life") in the Rgveda / Jarrod L. Whitaker -- One Yājn̋avalkya ... two? on the (questionable) historicity of a literary figure / Steven E. Lindquist -- A theologian in a South Indian kingdom: the historical context of the Jīvanmuktiviveka of Vidyāranya / Robert A Goodding -- The rhetoric of secrecy in the Upaniṣads / Brian Black -- Custom and law. Punishing puns: etymology as linguistic ideology in Hindu and British traditions / Robert A. Yelle -- Matrilineal adoption, inheritance law, and rites for the dead among Hindus in medieval Kerala / Donald R. Davis Jr. -- Punishing in public: imposing moral self-dominance in normative Sanskrit sources / Federico Squarcini -- Buddhists and jains as selves and others / How the Buddha dealt with non-Buddhists / Olivers Freigerger -- Sacrifice and asceticism in early Mahāyāna Buddhism / Daniel Boucher -- Text and image: identifying Ellora's Jain Deities / Lisa N Owen -- (Re)considering geographical and conceptual boundaries. Spiritual practice and corporate identity in medieval Sufi communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India: the Khalvatī/'Ishqī/Shattārī continuum / Devin DeWeese -- Digesting the sacrifices: ritual internalization in Jewish, Hindu, and Manichaean traditions / Jason BeDuhn -- The Hindutva underground: Hindu nationalism and the Indian National Congress in late Colonial and Early postcolonial India / Manu Bhagavan -- Marking the boundaries of a new literary identity: the assertion of 'Dalit Consciousness' in Dalit literary criticism / Laura R. Brueck -- Young Śvetaketu in America: learning to be Hindu in the Diaspora.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (392 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 294; Religion and literature -- South Asia; Religion and sociology -- South Asia; RELIGION -- Comparative Religion; Religion; Religion and literature; Religion and sociology; RELIGION / Hinduism / General; South Asia -- Religion; South Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857288110; 0857288113
• Related ISBNs: 9780857287908; 0857287907; 9781783080670; 1783080671
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: "Major publications of Patrick Olivelle": pages 15-20.; Note: Print version record.
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