| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series |
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Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series.
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| Contents |
1. The multifarious guru : an introduction / Jacob Copeman and Aya Ikegame -- 2. The governing guru : Hindu mathas in liberalising India / Aya Ikegame -- 3. The slave guru : masters, commanders, and disciples in early modern South Asia / William R. Pinch -- 4. The political guru : the guru as eminence grise / Christophe Jaffrelot -- 5. The gay guru : fallibility, unworldliness, and the scene of instruction / Lawrence Cohen -- 6. The female guru : guru, gender, and the path of personal experience / Karen Pechilis -- 7. The dreamed guru : the entangled lives of the amil and the anthropologist / Veena Das -- 8. The mimetic guru : tracing the real in Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda relations / Jacob Copeman -- 9. The mediated guru : simplicity, instantaneity and change in middle-class religious seeking / Kathinka Fr²ystad -- 10. The cosmopolitan guru : spiritual tourism and ashrams in Rishikesh / Meena Khandelwal -- 11. The literary guru : the dual emphasis on bhakti and vidhi in western Indian guru-devotion / Jeremy G. Morse -- 12. Continuities as gurus change / Daniel Gold |
| Summary |
This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a source of religious and philosophical knowledge and mystical bodily practices. This book goes further and considers the social engagements and entanglements of these spiritual leaders, not just on their |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gurus -- South Asia
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Religion and sociology -- South Asia
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Religion and politics -- South Asia
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Religion -- Religion -- South Asia -- Economic aspects
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RELIGION -- Counseling.
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Gurus
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Religion and politics
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Religion and sociology
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Copeman, Jacob, editor
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Ikegame, Aya, editor
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| LC no. |
2011048939 |
| ISBN |
9780203116258 |
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0203116259 |
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9781136298066 |
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1136298061 |
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1280874333 |
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9781280874338 |
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9786613715647 |
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6613715646 |
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