Mukherjee Religion, Mysticism, and Transcultural Entanglements in Modern South Asia

Towards a Global Religious History
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-49637-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 201 Seiten, eBook

This book explores the location of spirituality and mysticism in modern Indian religious and intellectual life. It examines select personalities and their ideas since the early twentieth century, their role in the interwoven spheres of socio-religious and political thought, and in burgeoning spiritual imaginaries, often at the intersection of academic and public discourse. As part of a global ecumene connected by affective bonds, these spiritual cosmopolitans often defied binary frameworks (East/ West; imperial core/ periphery; colonizer/ colonized), and in the upshot reappraised and recast the very concept of religion in response to overarching ‘this-worldly’ exigencies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Soumen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Mystics, scholars, and spiritual cosmopolitans in modern South Asia.- 2. Islam, yoga, and samyabad: Allama Iqbal, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and the poetics of nationalism and transcendence.- 3. The science of peace, pax cultura, and Akhandamahayoga: The worlds of Bhagavan Das, Nicholas Roerich, and Gopinath Kaviraj.- 4. ‘Pilgrims of stars’: The cosmopolitan itineraries of Sri Aurobindo, Dilip Kumar Roy, and Ronald Henry Nixon.- 5. Concluding reflections: From interwar idealism through ‘perennial philosophy’.

Über Autor(innen)

Soumen Mukherjee teaches History at Presidency University in Kolkata. He is the author of Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (2017).