Engaging South Asian religions: boundaries, appropriations, and resistances/ edited by Matthew N. Schmalz and Peter Gottschalk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A science of defining boundaries : classification, categorization, and the census of India / Peter Gottschalk -- The repetition of past imperialisms : Hegel, historical difference, and the theorization of Indic religions / Arvind Mandair -- Beyond national borders and religious boundaries : Muslim and Hindu veneration of Bonbibi / Sufia Uddin -- Boundaries and appropriations in North Indian charismatic Catholicism / Mathew N. Schmalz -- The corpse and cult of Francis Xavier, 1552-1623 / William R. Pinch -- Sati or female supremacy? : feminist appropriations of Gotami's Parinirvana / Liz Wilson -- Resisting my attackers, resisting my defenders : representing the Shivaji narratives / James W. Laine -- Resisting assimilation : encounters with a small Islamic sect in contemporary Pakistan / Shahzad Bashir -- Climbing through paradigms / Paul B. Courtright -- Afterword : scandals, scholars, subjects / Saurabh Dube -- Response 1 : historical difference / Arvind Mandair -- Response 2 : legend versus myth / Sufia Uddin -- Response 3 : staying with and thinking through / Mathew N. Schmalz.