Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison
Embodied Communities and Models of Religious Tradition
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 19 February 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781666932157
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables 0
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Short description:
Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison argues that comparative studies of Hindu and Jewish traditions can generate alternative epistemologies, critically interrogating the Eurocentric and Protestant-based paradigms in the academy that have perpetuated the ideals of Enlightenment discourse and colonial and neocolonial projects.
MoreLong description:
In Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison: Embodied Communities and Models of Religious Tradition, Barbara A. Holdrege emphasizes the role of comparative study as a method of critical interrogation that can serve as a means to challenge hegemonic taxonomies and categories in the academy and to reconstitute our scholarly discourse to allow for a multiplicity of epistemologies. Holdrege provides an extended series of reflections on the politics, problematics, and dynamics of comparison in which she explores how certain analytical categories in the study of religion-such as the body, scripture, sacrifice, purity, and food-can be fruitfully reimagined through a comparative analysis of their Hindu and Jewish instantiations. The author argues that this re-visioning of analytical categories through sustained comparative historical studies of a range of Hindu and Jewish traditions can provide the basis for generating alternative imaginaries to the prevailing Eurocentric and Protestant-based paradigms in the academy that have perpetuated the ideals of Enlightenment discourse and colonial and neocolonial projects. Such studies can serve as an important corrective to the scholarly practices through which certain categories and models have been privileged over others in the social sciences and humanities and in religious studies more specifically.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1: The Politics of Comparison: Beyond the Tyranny of Taxonomies
South Asia and the Middle East: Beyond European Hegemony
Hinduisms and Judaisms: Beyond Protestant Christian Hegemony
2: What Have Hindus to Do with Jews? Hindu-Jewish Encounters in the Academy and Beyond
Historical Encounters: South Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Indic and Judaic Worlds
Collaborative Scholarly Encounters: Comparative Studies of Hindu and Jewish Traditions
Interreligious Encounters: Hindu-Jewish Dialogue
3: Veda and Torah: Textual Communities and the Word Beyond Text
From Text to Symbol
I. Veda
II. Torah
III. Veda and Torah
Reimagining Scripture
4: Models of Religious Tradition: Embodied Communities and Missionizing Traditions
Embodying Ethnocultural Identities
Missionizing Traditions and Universalizing Projects
5: The Gastrosemantics of Hindu and Jewish Foodways: Food Taxonomies, Dietary Regimes, and Socioreligious Hierarchies
Embodied Communities and Foodways
Food Taxonomies and Animal Classifications
Dietary Regulations and Social Classifications
Food Preparation and Food Transactions
Afterword
From the Locative/Utopian Dichotomy to the Dialectic of Local Histories/Global Designs
Embodied Communities and Missionizing Traditions
Note on Translations and Transliteration
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
