Hinduism in public and private
Subtitle: reform, Hindutva, gender, and Sampraday
By: edited by Antony Copley.
Contributors: Copley, A. R. H. 1937-
Series: Oxford India paperbacks
Publisher: Oxford India Paperbacks
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780198062820
Subjects: Hinduism and politics -- India; Hinduism and state -- India; Hinduism and social problems -- India; Nationalism -- India; Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Secularism -- India
Description: Papers presented at the European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, held at Edinburgh in September 2000.
Notes: Originally published: New Dehli : Oxford University Press, c2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : debating Indian nationalism and Hindu religious belief / Antony Copley; title: Saffron and Seva : the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda / Gwilym Beckerlegge; title: 'The centre of the religious life of the world' : spiritual universalism and cultural nationalism in the work of Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs; title: Secularizing the sacred cow : the relationship between religious reform and Hindu nationalism / Therese O'Toole; title: Inventing a national past : the case of Ramdev's Bhāratvarṣ kā itihās (1910-14) / Harald Fischer-Tiné; title: 'The Hindu woman's right to Saṁnyāsa' : religious movements and the gender question : the Sri Sarada math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission / Hiltrud Rüstau; title: Re-membering the tradition : Bhaktivinoda Thākura's Sajjanaṭosanī and the construction of a middle-class Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya in nineteenth-century Bengal / Jason D. Fuller; title: Mahima Dharma ascetics : a case study on popular asceticism and its patronage structure in rural Orissa / Lidia Julianna Guzy; title: Bhima Bhoi : the making of a modern saint / Johannes Beltz; title: The Seva ethic and the spirit of institution building in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission / Maya Warrier.