Title Guru English : South Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language / Srinivas Aravamudan.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages).
Series	Translation/transnation
	Translation/transnation.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-311) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Theolinguistics: Orientalists, Brahmos, Vedantins, and Yogis; Chapter Two From Indian Romanticism to Guru Literature; Chapter Three Theosophistries; Chapter Four The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural; Chapter Five Blasphemy, Satire, and Secularism; Chapter Six New Age Enchantments; Afterword; Notes; Index.
Summary	Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shu.
Subject	English language -- South Asia -- Religious aspects.
	English language -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
	South Asia -- Religion -- Study and teaching.
	Religion and culture.
	Cosmopolitanism -- India.
	LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
	Cosmopolitanism. (OCoLC)fst00880635
	English language -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst00911568
	English language -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00911649
	Religion and culture. (OCoLC)fst01093823
	Religion -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01093807
	India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
	South Asia. (OCoLC)fst01244520
	Religion. (DE-588)4049396-9
	Religion.
	Südasien.
	Englisch.
Other Form:	Print version: Aravamudan, Srinivas. Guru English. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 0691118272 (DLC) 2004062907 (OCoLC)57391872
ISBN	9781400826858 (electronic bk.)
	1400826853 (electronic bk.)

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