Guru English South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language

Name: Guru English South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
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ISBN: 9780691118284

ISBN-10: 0691118280

ISBN-13: 9780691118284

Edition: 2006

Authors: Srinivas Aravamudan

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Guru Englishis a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Theolinguistics: Orientalists, Brahmos, Vedantins, and Yogis



From Indian Romanticism to Guru Literature



Theosophistries



The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural



Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism



New Age Enchantments


Afterword


Notes


Index