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How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. Contributors to this volume are particularly interested in how alternative forms of belonging and religious imaginations in South Asia are articulated in the light of normative, authoritative, and exclusive claims upon the representation of identities. Building upon new and extensive historiographical and ethnographical data, the book challenges clear-cut categorizations of group identity and points to the complex historical and contemporary relationships between different groups, organizations, in part by investigating the discursive formations that are often subsumed under binary distinctions of dominant/subaltern, Hindu/Muslim or orthodox/heterodox. In this respect, the book offers a theoretical contribution beyond South Asia Studies by highlighting a need for a new interdisciplinary effort in rethinking notions of identity, ethnicity, and religion.
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Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia
Routledge Studies in Religion
1. Judaism and Collective Life Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz Aryei Fishman 2. Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue Henrique Pinto 3. Religious Conversion and Identity The Semiotic Analysis of Texts Massimo Leone 4. Language, Desire, and Theology A Genealogy of the Will to Speak Noëlle Vahanian 5. Metaphysics and Transcendence Arthur Gibson 6. Sufism and Deconstruction A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ‘Arabi Ian Almond 7. Christianity, Tolerance and Pluralism A Theological Engagement with Isaiah Berlin’s Social Theory Michael Jinkins 8. Negative Theology and M