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Translocal Lives and Religion: Connections Between Asia and Europe in the Late Modern World

Translocal Lives and Religion: Connections Between Asia and Europe in the Late Modern World

Bornet, Philippe

Hardcover

Series: Study of Religion in a Global Context

Biographies GeneralComparative Religion

ISBN10: 1781795827
ISBN13: 9781781795828
Publisher: Equinox Pub
Published: Jan 15 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Inspired by the historiographical model of connected histories (S. Subrahmanyam and S. Gruzinski), the volume examines the intellectual trajectories of remarkable individuals who interacted with religious discourses, doctrines or practices in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The proposed approach of connected religion invites to the study of cross-cultural and translocal encounters by bringing together documents that represent diverse sides of the story and by reconstructing a narrative from an external standpoint, with analytical potential. Testing the approach through specific cases of interactions between Asia and Europe, the volume explores the little-known stories of both actors such as migrants or expatriates interacting with religious discourses, and of religious leaders producing and propagating beliefs and practices. Without any pretension to exhaustivity, the variety of cases arouses questions that can be addressed to further contexts, such as: the significance of improved travels and communications for the diffusion of religious content across national, cultural and institutional boundaries; the impact of specific individuals, charismatic or not, well-established or subaltern in the reconfiguration of institutional forms of religion; or the role of the South Asian referent in legitimating the propagation of specific religious views.

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