Swaminarayan Hinduism

Tradition, Adaptation, and Identity

Raymond Brady Williams editor Yogi Trivedi editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:OUP India

Published:12th May '16

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Swaminarayan Hinduism is rooted in its formation in India at the cusp of the early modern and colonial period. This book explores the new discoveries, recent research and interpretation of the history, doctrine, devotional arts, and transnational developments provide a foundation for a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary Swaminarayan growth, belief and practice. The themes that trace through the analyses are tradition and adaptation in the historical and social process of creating a complex new religious identity in response to social, economic and political changes. The book contains current academic research from several disciplinesincluding history, theology, the arts, architecture, sociology, and migration studiesto analyze how the stories, texts, and arts shape and reveal the thought, devotion, conduct, and socio-religious community that guide Swaminarayan Hindus through major transitions across time and space in several contexts. Swaminarayan is one of the rapidly expanding transnational Hindu movements with followers and institutions throughout India and abroad, especially in the United States, Britain, East Africa and Australasia.

The book contains material of diverse kinds concerning the Swaminarayan movement. * Jeanna Openshaw, Expository Times *

ISBN: 9780199463749

Dimensions: 224mm x 147mm x 36mm

Weight: 676g

423 pages