Pedagogical Otherness: The Use of Muslims and Untouchables in Some Hindu Devotional Literature

This article reconsiders some cases of interreligious and intercaste alterity in early modern India by highlighting a motive for depicting otherness that has been neglected in recent scholarship. I argue that depicting otherness can play an important pedagogical role for those who represent it, and...

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Main Author: Keune, Jon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2016]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 84, Issue: 3, Pages: 727-749
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hindi religious literature / Muslim / Paria / The Other
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
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