TY - BOOK AU - Fisher,Elaine M. ED - Project Muse. TI - Hindu Pluralism : : Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India / T2 - South Asia across the disciplines SN - 9780520966291 PY - 2017///] CY - Oakland, California PB - University of California Press KW - Religious pluralism KW - fast KW - Religion KW - Hinduism KW - RELIGION KW - History KW - bisacsh KW - Social and cultural history KW - bicssc KW - Religion: general KW - Religion and beliefs KW - Regional and national history KW - Humanities KW - History: specific events and topics KW - History of religion KW - Asian history KW - Hindouisme KW - Inde (Sud) KW - India, South KW - South India KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Hindu sectarianism: difference in unity -- "Just like Kālidāsa": the making of the Smārta-Śaiva community of South India -- Public philology: constructing sectarian identities in early modern South India -- The language games of Śaiva: mapping text and space in public religious culture -- Conclusion: a prehistory of Hindu pluralism; Open Access N2 - "Much has been written about the historical origins of the unity of Hinduism. Hindu difference has been read through the lens of the term "sectarianism," a concept that translates devotion as dissent, and community as a potential precursor to communalism. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine. M. Fisher argues that it is the plurality of Hindu religious identities, and their embodiment and contestation in public space, that first reveals the emergence of Hinduism as a unified religion in south India and an integral feature of a distinctively Indic early modernity prior to British Colonialism."--Provided by publisher UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63411/ ER -