Richard S Weiss
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5521057 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard S Weiss |
| NOMBRES | Richard S |
| APELLIDO | Weiss |
| FIRMA | WEISS R S |
| AFILIACIONES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Religion and the emergence of print in colonial India
This article offers one of the first scholarly analyses of the impact of print on religion in India in the middle of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the publishing project of Arumuga Navalar, one of the most important authors and editors of Tamil Shaiva works. I examine the details of some of Navalar’s key publications, especially his 1852 prose rendition of the Tamil Shaiva classic Periya Puranam. This work was part of Navalar’s effort to …
Accounting for Religious Change
Print, Religion, and Canon in Colonial India
In India in the 1860s, print was becoming the primary medium for the reproduction of religious texts. The accessibility of print, and its ready uptake within a highly stratified and competitive religious landscape, had a significant effect on the ways in which groups contended for textual, and thus spiritual, authority. In 1867, the popular Tamil Shaiva mystic Ramalinga Adigal and his followers publishedTiruvarutpa, a book of Ramalinga's poems th…
Recipes for Immortality
This book illuminates the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha medical practitioners in Tamil south India have won the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient’s physical distress, siddha doctors offer their clientele much more: affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality. They speak of a golden age of Tami…
Recipes for immortality
In this text, Weiss seeks to illuminate the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha practitioners in Tamil, South India have won the trust and patronage of patients
Accounting for Religious Change
Print, Religion, and Canon in Colonial India
In India in the 1860s, print was becoming the primary medium for the reproduction of religious texts. The accessibility of print, and its ready uptake within a highly stratified and competitive religious landscape, had a significant effect on the ways in which groups contended for textual, and thus spiritual, authority. In 1867, the popular Tamil Shaiva mystic Ramalinga Adigal and his followers publishedTiruvarutpa, a book of Ramalinga's poems th…
Recipes for Immortality
This book illuminates the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha medical practitioners in Tamil south India have won the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient’s physical distress, siddha doctors offer their clientele much more: affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality. They speak of a golden age of Tami…
Recipes for immortality
In this text, Weiss seeks to illuminate the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha practitioners in Tamil, South India have won the trust and patronage of patients
Print, Religion, and Canon in Colonial India
In India in the 1860s, print was becoming the primary medium for the reproduction of religious texts. The accessibility of print, and its ready uptake within a highly stratified and competitive religious landscape, had a significant effect on the ways in which groups contended for textual, and thus spiritual, authority. In 1867, the popular Tamil Shaiva mystic Ramalinga Adigal and his followers publishedTiruvarutpa, a book of Ramalinga's poems th…
Religion and the emergence of print in colonial India
This article offers one of the first scholarly analyses of the impact of print on religion in India in the middle of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the publishing project of Arumuga Navalar, one of the most important authors and editors of Tamil Shaiva works. I examine the details of some of Navalar’s key publications, especially his 1852 prose rendition of the Tamil Shaiva classic Periya Puranam. This work was part of Navalar’s effort to …
Accounting for Religious Change
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