The Oxford History Of Hinduism
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Contents
Introduction: Modernity and Hinduism
Torkel Brekke
Early Modern Hinduism
Adrian Plau
Rammohun Roy and the Bengal Renaissance
Dermot Killingley
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Modern Hinduism
Hans Harder
Bhaktisiddhnta Sarasvat and ISKCON
Ferdinando Sardella
Mrti, Idol, Art, and Commodity: The Multiple Identities of Hindu Images
Tanisha Ramachandran
Indian Cinema and Modern Hinduism
Gayatri Chatterjee
Hindu Pilgrimage and Modern Tourism
Knut Aukland
Hinduism and New Age: Patrimonial Oneness and Religious Cosmopolitanism
Kathinka Frystad
Online Hinduism
Heinz Scheifinger
Modern Hindu Diaspora(s)
Vineeta Sinha
The History of Hindu Nationalism in India
Manjari Katju
Caste and Contemporary Hindu Society: Community, Politics, and Work
Divya Vaid and Ankur Datta
Hindu Law in Modern Times: How Hindu Law Continues in Modern India
Werner Menski
Modern Hindu Dharma and Environmentalism
Pankaj Jain
Hinduism in the Secular Republic of Nepal
David N. Gellner and Chiara Letizia
Knut Aukland is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and International Studies at OsloMetOslo Metropolitan University. Aukland has published a series of articles exploring tourism and Hindu pilgrimage. He has also co-edited Religion, Pilgrimage and Tourism in India and China in the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (with Michael Stausberg, 2018).
Torkel Brekke is professor in the study of religion at the University of Oslo. He completed a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and specialized in South Asian religious history in the colonial period. His research has its general focus on issues of religion and culture and their relation to politics and economics with a broad range of topics, such as the ethics of war in the Hindu tradition, fundamentalism in the world religions, Christian politics in Scandinavia, and Islamic finance in the West. Brekke also works for the liberal think tank Civita based in Oslo.
Gayatri Chatterjee , a freelance scholar based in Pune, has taught Film Studies at the Symbiosis School for the Liberal Arts since 2011. She was previously at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She has taught and lectured widely in the USA, and was a Fellow at the Birbeck University of London in 2015. Her book Awara (1992) won the Swarnakamal, the Presidents gold medal, as the Best Book on Cinema. Mother India (2002) was for the British Film Institutes film classics series. Her articles have appeared in national and international volumes. She has made two documentary films titled Homes for Gods and Mortals and Life is Water. A film based on her script Bitter Chestnut is in the post-production stage.
Ankur Datta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at South Asian University. He has explored questions of forced migration, violence, and victimhood with reference to Jammu and Kashmir. He has published his work in journals such as Contributions to Indian Sociology and Modern Asian Studies. He is the author of On Uncertain Ground: Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir (2017).
Kathinka Frystad is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. Specializing on religious diversity and change, Frystad has interests that span from everyday Hindu nationalism and religious transformations to ritual intersections and the politics of religious offence. Her works include Blended Boundaries: Caste, Class and Shifting Faces of Hinduness in a North Indian City (2005).
David N. Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor or co-editor of fourteen volumes, including Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora (with S. L. Hausner, 2018) and Religion, Secularism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal (with S. L. Hausner and Chiara Letizia, 2016). His other books include Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal (with S. LeVine, 2005) and The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes, 2001). He has been conducting research on religion, politics, ethnicity, and social change in Nepal since 1980.
Hans Harder is Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. He is the author of Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh: The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong (2011) and Literature and National Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages (2009).
Pankaj Jain is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas, where he teaches courses on religions, cultures, ecologies, and films of India and Asia. He is the author of Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability (2011), which won the 2012 DANAM Book Award and the 2011 Uberoi Book Award.
Manjari Katju is Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, India. She teaches courses on Indian and Comparative Politics. She is the author of Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics (2003) and Hinduising Democracy: The Vishva Hindu Parishad in Contemporary India (2017). Her publications include Mass Politics and Institutional Restraint: Political Parties and the Election Commission of India, Studies in Indian Politics (2016) and Election Commission and Changing Contours of Politics,