TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams, Raymond Brady (ed.)
AU  - Yogi Trivedi (ed)
TI  - SWAMINARAYAN HINDUISM: tradition, adaptation and identity 
SN  - 9780199463749 (hbk.)
U1  - 294.556 
PY  - 2017////01/01
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sahajānanda,
KW  - Swami-Narayanis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. History. Introduction to history; Raymond Brady Williams --; Situating the Swaminarayan tradition in the historiography of modern Hindu reform; Brian A. Hatcher --; Sahajanand Swami's language and communication; Makrand Mehta --; Gujarati socio-religious context of Swaminarayan devotion and doctrine; Françoise Mallison --; Swaminarayan and British contacts in Gujarat in the 1820s; Sadhu Paramtattvadas and Raymond Brady Williams with an Appendix on historical dating by Sadhu Amrutvijaydas --; The Swaminarayan ideology and Kolis in Gujarat; Vibhuti Parikh --; Sahajanand Swami's approach to caste; Sadhu Mangalnidhidas --; II. Theology and literature. Introduction to Theology and literature; Yogi Trivedi --; The Swaminarayan commentarial tradition; Arun Brahmbhatt --; Akshara and its four forms in Swaminarayan's doctrine; Smit Gadhia --; Swaminarayan's Brahmajnana as Aksarabrahma-Parabrahma-Darsanam; Sadhu Bhadreshdas ; translated by Sadhu Aksharananddas --; Multivalent Krishna-bhakti in Premanand's poetry; Yogi Trivedi --; Brahmanand and his innovations in the Barahmasa genre; Dalpat Rajpurohit --; III. The arts and architecture. Introduction to The arts and architecture; Yogi Trivedi --; Early Swaminarayan iconography and its relationship to Vaishnavism; Cynthia Packert --; Swaminarayan temple building: tradition and innovation; Rabindra Vasavada --; The Nagara tradition of temple architecture and 'truth to Shastra'; Adam Hardy --; IV. Transnational networks. Introduction to Transnational networks; Raymond Brady Williams --; Development of Swaminarayan Hinduism in Uganda and the Kampala Temple; Paddy Musana --; Transnational growth of BAPS in East Africa; Sadhu Vivekjivandas with Mahendrabhai Patel and Sadhu Ishwarcharandas --; Terrorism and interfaith relations at Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar; Sadhu Brahmaviharidas --; Construction of the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Chino Hills, California: a case study in interfaith bridge-building; Kalpesh Bhatt --; Thinking through Akshardham and the making of the Swaminarayan self; Hanna Kim --; Swaminarayan (BAPS) identity formation in virtual transnationalism; Andrew Kunze
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