Culture, religion, and home-making in and beyond South Asia

• Titel: Culture, religion, and home-making in and beyond South Asia
• Mitwirkende: Ponniah, James [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by James Ponniah
• Verlagsort: Minneapolis
• Verlag: Fortress Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: xiv, 226 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 23 cm
• ISBN: 978-1-5064-3992-1
• Schlagwörter: (g)Südasien / (g)Indien / (t)Härtling, Peter / Eine Frau / (s)Zuhause / (s)Religion
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1741958253

Abstract

Foreword / Brian K. Pennington and Amy L. Allocco -- Introduction: Homes and spaces under transformation / James Ponniah and Amitha Santiago -- Part I. Coloniality/post-coloniality, migrants, and home-making. The memsahib and her home in the Indian colony: a shadow of the political realm in the domestic sphere? / Rituparna Ray Chowdhury -- Home and sacred place in the letters of Gertrude Sovik: a Norwegian-American in China / L. DeAne Lagerquist -- Old identities in a new space: the role of Hindu priests in making diasporic communities feel at home in Mumbai / Usha R. Vijailakshmi -- The Ramakrishna movement in Japan as seen through the activities of the Nippon Vēdānta Society / Midori Horiuchi -- Reconfiguring home: cuisinic negotiations of religion, culture, and identity in Marsha Mehran's Pomegranate soup / Lisa John Mundackal -- Part II. Traditions, female agency, and domestic space. Searching for the quintessential home: home-making and trans-identity / S. Susan Deborah -- Pushing boundaries: negotiations of power in the domestic space / Kochurani Abraham -- Women make it work: the story of inter-religious marriages in urban India / James Ponniah -- Women and the "bratas": the practice of vows among rural women in Bengal / Trayee Sinha -- Part III. Religion, literature, and home-making. Bayit ze isha: housing the body of the woman through spatializing metaphors / Amitha Santiago -- Contextualizing place in Sri Lanka through popular literature / Dilini Wijkeweera, Surangi Gunawardena, and Dimantha Weliange -- Terra firma and transcendent space: a hagiographic study of "Arunachala" in Sri Ramana Maharishi's life and works / V. Bharathi Harishankar