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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

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Series: Study of Religion in a Global Context

Biographies GeneralComparative ReligionGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1781795835
ISBN13: 9781781795835
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: Jan 15 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume examines the intellectual trajectories of remarkable individuals who interacted with religious discourses, doctrines or practices in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inspired by S. Subrahmanyam and S. Gruzinski's historiographical model of connected histories, this book introduces the approach of connected religion and invites the study of cross-cultural and translocal encounters by bringing together documents that represent diverse aspects of the story and reconstructing a narrative from diverse standpoints, with analytical potential. Testing this approach through specific cases of interactions between Asia and Europe, the volume explores the little-known stories of actors such as migrants or expatriates interacting with religious discourses, and of religious leaders producing and propagating beliefs and practices. The cases pose questions that can be applied 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; and the role of the South Asian referent in legitimating the propagation of specific religious views.

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