Translocal Lives and Religion : Connections between Asia and Europe in the Late Modern World (Study of Religion in a Global Context)

Bornet, Philippe (EDT)

Equinox Publishing Ltd（2021/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 318 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781781795828
• DDC分類 200.9

Full Description

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.

Offering both an innovative methodological framework and original cases based on new research, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion, to specialists of South Asia in late modernity and to the broader public.

Contents

Preface
Sujit Sivasundaram, Cambridge University
Editor's Introduction
Philippe Bornet

Part I: Introduction
1. From Comparative to Connected Religion: Translocal Aspects of Orientalism and the Study of Religion
Philippe Bornet

Part II: Transnational Trajectories and Individual Appropriations of Religion
2. "In-Between" Religiosity: European Kālī-bhakti in Early Colonial Calcutta
Gautam Chakrabarti, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Freie Universität Berlin
3. The Making of the Ideal Transnational Disciple: Unravelling Biographies of Margaret Noble/Sister Nivedita
Gwilym Beckerlegge, The Open University
4. The Curious Case of the Drs. D'Abreu: Catholicism, Migration and a Kanara Catholic Family in the Heart of the Empire, 1890-1950
Dwayne Ryan Menezes, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
5. Religion and the "Simple Life": Dugald Semple and Translocal "Life Reform" Networks
Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh
6. Re-discovering Buddha's Land: The Transnational Formative Years of China's Indology
Minyu Zhang, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Part III: Religions on the Move
7. Charles Pfoundes and the Forgotten First Buddhist Mission to the West, London 1889
Brian Bocking, University College Cork
8. Travelling through Interstitial Spaces: The Radical Spiritual Journeys of Pandita Mary Ramabai Saraswathi
Parinitha Shetty, Mangalore University
9. A "Christian Hindu Apostle"? The Multiple Lives of Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889‒1929?)
Philippe Bornet
10. The Chen Jianmin (1906-1987) Legacy: An "Always on the Move" Buddhist Practice
Fabienne Jagou, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris

Part IV: In Summary
11. Afterword
Maya Burger, University of Lausanne