List of Figures Introduction: Engaging South Asian Religions PETER GOTTSCHALK AND MATHEW N. SCHMALZ PART ONE: BOUNDARIES 1. A Science of Defining Boundaries: Classification,Categorization, and the Census of India PETER GOTTSCHALK 2. The Repetition of Past Imperialisms: Hegel, HistoricalDifference, and the Theorization of Indic Religions ARVIND MANDAIR 3. Beyond National Borders and Religious Boundaries: Muslim and Hindu Veneration of Bonbibi SUFIA UDDIN PART TWO: APPROPRIATIONS 4. Boundaries and Appropriations in North IndianCharismatic Catholicism MATHEW N. SCHMALZ 5. The Corpse and Cult of St. Francis Xavier, 1552-1623 WILLIAM R. PINCH 6. Sati or Female Supremacy? Feminist Appropriationsof Gotami's Parinirvana LIZ WILSON PART THREE: RESISTANCES 7. Resisting My Attackers; Resisting My Defenders: Representing the Shivaji Narratives JAMES W. LAINE 8. Resisting Assimilation: Encounters with a Small Islamic Sectin Contemporary Pakistan SHAHZAD BASHIR 9: Climbing through Paradigms PAUL B. COURTRIGHT AFTERWORD AND RESPONSES Afterword: Scandals, Scholars, Subjects SAURABH DUBE Response 1: Historical Difference ARVIND MANDAIR Response 2: Legend versus Myth SUFIA UDDIN Response 3: Staying With and Thinking Through MATHEW N. SCHMALZ List of Contributors Index
Mathew N. Schmalz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. Besides writing regularly as a panelist for the Newsweek/Washington Post "On Faith" website, he has published in various books and journals, including The History of Religion, The Journal of Religious Studies, and Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. Peter Gottschalk is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India and coauthor (with Gabriel Greenberg) of Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy.
"Even before opening this book, students and researchers are challenged to think both expansively and carefully about their own subjectivity, their own location within the fields in which they roam. Critical reflectivity has become a major theme in many fields of humanities research, and this volume of interlinked essays on the study of religion in South Asia in the western academy, carefully put together by [Peter] Gottschalk and Matthew Schmalz, contributes provocatively to this theme." - Religions of South Asia
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