Religion and Public Culture

These essays explore the intricacies of one of most complex socio-religious environment in the world, examining the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and separate religion.

KeithE. Yandell, JohnJ. Paul

Part 1 Orthodoxies; Chapter 1 The Construction of Hinduism as a Public Religion: Looking Again at the Religious Roots of Company Raj in South India, Robert Eric Frykenberg; Chapter 2 Acting in Public versus Forming a Public: Conflict Processing and Political Mobilization in Nineteenth Century South India, Pamela G. Price; Chapter 3 The Significance of Episcopal Extension for Church-State Relations in British India, Susan Billington Harper; Chapter 4 The Drama of Conversion in the Courts of South India: Challenges to Aggressive Missionary Enterprise and Changing Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century, John J. Paul; Chapter 5 Routinized Charisma: the Case of Aurobindo and Auroville, Robert K. Minor; Chapter 6 Dissolving One Paradox and Discovering Another: Pillan's Interpretation of Nammalvar's Poem, John B. Carman; Chapter 7 Memories of Brahman Agraharam in Travancore, Pauline Kolenda; Part 2 Heterodoxies; Chapter 8 Cult Saints, Heroes, and Warrior Kings: South Asian Islam in the Making, Susan Bayly; Chapter 9 Persons East and West, Keith E. Yandell; Chapter 10 The Heterodoxies in Tamil Nadu, James D. Ryan;