List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on
Transliteration; Introduction; Section I HISTORY; Introduction:
Raymond Brady Williams; 1: Chapter 1 Situating the Swaminarayan
Tradition in the Historiography of Modern Hindu Reform Brian
Hatcher; 2: Chapter 2 Sahajanand Swamis Language and Communication
Makrand Mehta; 3: Chapter 3 The Gujarati Socio-religious Context of
Swaminarayan Devotion and Doctrine Francoise Mallison; 4: Chapter 4
Swaminarayan
and British Contacts in Gujarat in the 1820s Sadhu Paramtattvadas
and Raymond Brady Williams with Appendix on Historical Dating by
Sadhu Amrutvijayadas; 5: Chapter 5 Swaminarayan Ideology and the
Kolis
of Gujarat Vibhuti Parikh; 6: Chapter 6 Sahajanand Swamis Approach
to Caste Sadhu Mangalnidhidas; Section II THEOLOGY AND LITERATURE;
Introduction: Yogi Trivedi; 7: Chapter 7 The Swaminarayan
Commentarial Tradition Arun Brahmabatt; 8: Chapter 8 Akshara and
Its Four Forms in Swaminarayans Doctrine Smit Gadhia; 9: Chapter 9
Swaminarayan Brahmajnana as Aksharabrahma-Parabrahma Darshanam
Sadhu Bhadreshdas, Translated by Sadhu Aksharananddas; 10: Chapter
10 Krishna-bhakti in Premanands Poetry Yogi
Trivedi; 11: Chapter 11 Brahmanand and His Innovations in the
Barahmasa Genre Dalpat Rajpurohit; Section III THE ARTS AND
ARCHITECTURE; Introduction: Yogi Trivedi; 12: Chapter 12 Early
Swaminarayan
Iconography and Its Relationship to Vaishnavism Cynthia Packert;
13: Chapter 13 Swaminarayan Temple Building: Tradition and
Innovation Rabendra J. Vasavada; 14: Chapter 14 The Nagara
Tradition of Temple Architecture and Truth to Shastra Adam Hardy;
Section IV TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS; Introduction: Raymond Brady
Williams; 15: Chapter 15 Swaminarayan Hindus in Uganda Paddy
Musana; 16: Chapter 16 Transnational Growth of BAPS in East Africa
Sadhu Vivekjivandas with Mahendrabhai Patel and Sadhu
Ishwarcharandas; 17: Chapter 17 Terrorism and Interfaith Relations
at Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar Sadhu Brahmaviharidas;
18: Chapter 18 Interfaith Bridge Building in California Kalpesh
Bhatt; 1:
Chapter 19 Thinking Through Akshardham and the Making of the
Swaminarayan Self Hanna Kim; 1: Chapter 20 Swaminarayan (BAPS)
Identity Formation in Virtual Transnationalism Andrew Kunze; Notes
on Editors and Contributors; Index
Raymond Brady Williams is LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the
Humanities emeritus at Wabash College where he served as Chair of
the Department of Philosophy and Religion and as Founding Director
of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and
Religion. Yogi Trivedi is Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School
of Journalism and a doctoral student in the Department of Religion
at Columbia University. His doctoral
project focuses on the textual and performative study of North
Indian devotional traditions in eighteenth and nineteenth century
Gujarat, specifically the Swaminarayan Sampraday.
The book contains material of diverse kinds concerning the
Swaminarayan movement.
*Jeanna Openshaw, Expository Times*
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