James W Laine
Biographic Data
| ID | 330270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Laine |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Laine |
| SIGNATURE | LAINE J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narrating Shivaji the Great
This article investigates the narrative constraints that led Kavindra Paramananda to include accounts of family feuds in his epic poem, the Sivabharata, even while the purpose of the text was to praise the Maharashtrian king Shivaji (d. 1680) as a great epic hero. Written at the time of the king's coronation and presumably under his direction, the Sivabharata may have taken the Mahabharata as a useful model for dealing with family conflict when a…
Meta-Religion
Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing their relationship from the policies of Alexander the Great to the ideologies of modern Europe secularists, with stops in classical India, China, and the I…
Censorship in Brown and White
Notes1 James W. Laine, Hindu King in Islamic India (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).2 See Adheesh Sathaye, ‘Censorship and Censureship: Insiders, Outsiders and the Attack on Bhandarkar Institute’, in Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1 (2006), pp. 2–11.3 Since the late 1990s, Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American businessman, has led a concerted effort to discredit Doniger's scholarship and that of her many students. In his v…
Mind and mood in the study of religion
This paper is a reflection on the attempt of authors like E. Valentine Daniel, S.Balagangadhara, Daniel Dubuisson, Timothy Fitzgerald and Tomoko Masuzawa to argue that the word “religion” is most appropriately used to describe Christianity but that it tends to distort description and analysis of nonwestern traditions. My concern is to correct their tendency to divide the world between east and west by using Daniel's (and C.S. Peirce’s) notions of…
The Body As The Locus Of Religious Identity
To emphasize the cultural aspect of conversion is to challenge the assumption of the obvious superiority and nobility of sincere, individual and free conversion, indeed to call into question the very possibility of the neutral space that allows such radical freedom of choice. It is to accept that religious identity is always shaped in cultural contexts where, as Talal Asad reminds us, power is always being wielded. This chapter presents three exa…
Untouchable Saints
Shivaji
Shivaji was a noble and virtuous hero from 17th-century western India. His legend is well known and has been retold, in several different versions, as it serves as an important part of Hindu nationalist ideology. His legend expresses deeply held convictions about what Hinduism is, and how it is opposed to Islam. Through presenting specific points about the similarities of themes and the contexts in which this legend has been set, this book traces…
Cracks in the Narrative
Maharashtra possesses a regional history that most of its inhabitants consider as a patriotic narrative about the nation. Because India is a relatively young nation and establishing its modern identity and national vision is still under construction, it is likely that nation builders would count on the regional golden age for reliable material. Therefore, writers should compare the accounts of the already colonized Maharashtra with accounts where…
Shivaji
"Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, and an important part of the Hindu nationalists' ideology. To read Shivaji's legend today is to find expression of deeply held convictions about what Hinduism means and how…
The dharma of Islam and the dīn of Hinduism
The Camphor Flame
Journal Article The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India, by C.J. Fuller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, xx + 306 pp. $45; 14.95 (paper) Get access James W. Laine James W. Laine Macalester College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 4, Winter 1993, Pages 440–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711796 Published: 01 December 1993
Out of character
The dharma of Islam and the dīn of Hinduism
Censorship in Brown and White
Notes1 James W. Laine, Hindu King in Islamic India (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).2 See Adheesh Sathaye, ‘Censorship and Censureship: Insiders, Outsiders and the Attack on Bhandarkar Institute’, in Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1 (2006), pp. 2–11.3 Since the late 1990s, Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American businessman, has led a concerted effort to discredit Doniger's scholarship and that of her many students. In his v…
Mind and mood in the study of religion
This paper is a reflection on the attempt of authors like E. Valentine Daniel, S.Balagangadhara, Daniel Dubuisson, Timothy Fitzgerald and Tomoko Masuzawa to argue that the word “religion” is most appropriately used to describe Christianity but that it tends to distort description and analysis of nonwestern traditions. My concern is to correct their tendency to divide the world between east and west by using Daniel's (and C.S. Peirce’s) notions of…
Out of character
The Camphor Flame
Journal Article The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India, by C.J. Fuller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, xx + 306 pp. $45; 14.95 (paper) Get access James W. Laine James W. Laine Macalester College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 4, Winter 1993, Pages 440–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711796 Published: 01 December 1993
The dharma of Islam and the dīn of Hinduism
Shivaji
"Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, and an important part of the Hindu nationalists' ideology. To read Shivaji's legend today is to find expression of deeply held convictions about what Hinduism means and how…
Shivaji
Shivaji was a noble and virtuous hero from 17th-century western India. His legend is well known and has been retold, in several different versions, as it serves as an important part of Hindu nationalist ideology. His legend expresses deeply held convictions about what Hinduism is, and how it is opposed to Islam. Through presenting specific points about the similarities of themes and the contexts in which this legend has been set, this book traces…
Cracks in the Narrative
Maharashtra possesses a regional history that most of its inhabitants consider as a patriotic narrative about the nation. Because India is a relatively young nation and establishing its modern identity and national vision is still under construction, it is likely that nation builders would count on the regional golden age for reliable material. Therefore, writers should compare the accounts of the already colonized Maharashtra with accounts where…
Untouchable Saints
The Body As The Locus Of Religious Identity
To emphasize the cultural aspect of conversion is to challenge the assumption of the obvious superiority and nobility of sincere, individual and free conversion, indeed to call into question the very possibility of the neutral space that allows such radical freedom of choice. It is to accept that religious identity is always shaped in cultural contexts where, as Talal Asad reminds us, power is always being wielded. This chapter presents three exa…
Mind and mood in the study of religion
This paper is a reflection on the attempt of authors like E. Valentine Daniel, S.Balagangadhara, Daniel Dubuisson, Timothy Fitzgerald and Tomoko Masuzawa to argue that the word “religion” is most appropriately used to describe Christianity but that it tends to distort description and analysis of nonwestern traditions. My concern is to correct their tendency to divide the world between east and west by using Daniel's (and C.S. Peirce’s) notions of…
Censorship in Brown and White
Notes1 James W. Laine, Hindu King in Islamic India (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).2 See Adheesh Sathaye, ‘Censorship and Censureship: Insiders, Outsiders and the Attack on Bhandarkar Institute’, in Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1 (2006), pp. 2–11.3 Since the late 1990s, Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American businessman, has led a concerted effort to discredit Doniger's scholarship and that of her many students. In his v…
Meta-Religion
Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing their relationship from the policies of Alexander the Great to the ideologies of modern Europe secularists, with stops in classical India, China, and the I…
Narrating Shivaji the Great
This article investigates the narrative constraints that led Kavindra Paramananda to include accounts of family feuds in his epic poem, the Sivabharata, even while the purpose of the text was to praise the Maharashtrian king Shivaji (d. 1680) as a great epic hero. Written at the time of the king's coronation and presumably under his direction, the Sivabharata may have taken the Mahabharata as a useful model for dealing with family conflict when a…
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