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  • Provincialising Pluralism: Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions

    Provincialising Pluralism by Black, Brian ; Madaio, James;

    Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions

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    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 4 September 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350436039
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages536 pages
    • Size 244x169 mm
    • Language English
    • 700

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    How have South Asian traditions responded to plurality and difference? The question lies at the centre of this collection, inviting us to challenge established conceptions of pluralism and understand South Asian ways of thinking about difference, diversity, and 'the other'.

    This diverse collection is the first in-depth treatment of the variety of ways that South Asian traditions theorise plurality. Bringing together case studies across South Asia's distinctive religious landscape, it marks a significant contribution to re-thinking pluralism in the 21st century.

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction: Brian Black and James Madaio.

    Part 1: Pluralisms in Ancient South Asia


    Chapter 1: Claire Maes: '""I heard it through the grapevine."" Gossip and Rumour in the Pali Canon as Strategies to Deal with Religious Others'

    Chapter 2: Sonam Kachru: 'Asoka's Principled Pluralism'

    Chapter 3: Mark McClish: 'Pluralism and Religious Policy in the Arthasastra'

    Chapter 4: Brian Black: 'The Mahabharata's Dharmic Pluralism'

    Chapter 5: Vrinda Dalmiya: 'In Defence of Double-Think: Stances, Standpoints, and Justice in the Mahabharata and Feminist Epistemology'

    Chapter 6: Jessica Frazier: 'Collaboration, Inference, and Virtue in the Caraka Samhita'

    Chapter 7: Anil Mundra: 'Pluralistic Selves: Jain Engagements with Doctrinal Difference and Identity'

    Chapter 8: Patrick Lambelet: 'Weaving Many into One: Plurality and Unity in the Buddhist Mantrayana'

    Part 2: Pluralisms in Pre-Modern South Asia

    Chapter 9: Nancy M. Martin: 'Forging Self and Sampraday: Inclusion, Equality, and Religious Diversity in Pre-Modern Bhakti'

    Chapter 10: Pashaura Singh: 'Religious Pluralism and the Bhagat Bani in the Guru Granth Sahib'

    Chapter 11: Jaroslav Strnad: 'Plurality of Spiritual Paths in the Dadupanthi Community of 17th Century Rajasthan'

    Chapter 12: Rembert Lutjeharms: 'Encounters with the Inconceivable: Experience and Inclusivism in Early Gaudiya Vaisnava Theology'

    Chapter 13: Rosie Edgley and Jacqueline Suthren Hirst: 'Addressing Plurality in Madhusudana Sarasvati's Bhagavadgita commentary'

    Chapter 14: Supriya Gandhi: 'Reconciling Difference Through Tatbiq: Pluralism and Comparative Religion at the Mughal Court

    Part 3: Pluralisms in Modern South Asia

    Chapter 15: Scott R. Stroud: 'Ambedkar, Pragmatic Buddhism, and Democratic Pluralism'

    Chapter 16: Elise Coquereau-Saouma: 'Witnessing and Realising Plurality in 20th Century Indian Philosophy'

    Chapter 17: Arindam Chakrabarti: 'Seesaw Worlds, Interrogative Reality, and Alternative Theories of Error: From Kalidas Bhattacharya back to Abhinavagupta'

    Chapter 18: James Madaio: 'Plurality and the Other in Ramchandra Gandhi's Hermeneutics of Being'

    Chapter 19: Humeira Iqtidar: 'Is Tolerance Liberal? Javed Ahmed Ghamidi and the Non-Muslim Minority'

    Chapter 20: Brian Black and James Madaio: 'Concluding Reflections: Thinking Pluralistically about Pluralism'

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