Guru English

Author: Srinivas Aravamudan
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0691118280

Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (Translation/Transnation)

Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. Download Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (Translation/Transnation) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that resu Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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