Aditya Behl
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195146707
- eISBN:
- 9780199978878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195146707.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
The Hindavī Sufi romances mark the inauguration of a new literary and devotional culture in a local language. This is a book about those fictional narratives and the cultures of performance and ...
More
The Hindavī Sufi romances mark the inauguration of a new literary and devotional culture in a local language. This is a book about those fictional narratives and the cultures of performance and reception that produced them, aristocratic local courts and the hospices of Sufi shaikhs. This chapter traces the development of Hindavī Sufi romances. It discusses the cultural landscape; the Chishti Sufis; the problem of “Hindu” and “Muslim”; and the Hindavī Sufi romance genre. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
The Hindavī Sufi romances mark the inauguration of a new literary and devotional culture in a local language. This is a book about those fictional narratives and the cultures of performance and reception that produced them, aristocratic local courts and the hospices of Sufi shaikhs. This chapter traces the development of Hindavī Sufi romances. It discusses the cultural landscape; the Chishti Sufis; the problem of “Hindu” and “Muslim”; and the Hindavī Sufi romance genre. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Jerome Tharaud
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780691200101
- eISBN:
- 9780691203263
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691200101.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter provides a background on the relationship of religious media and the landscape in the antebellum United States in order to rethink the meaning of space in American culture. It traverses ...
More
This chapter provides a background on the relationship of religious media and the landscape in the antebellum United States in order to rethink the meaning of space in American culture. It traverses a range of genres and media including sermons, landscape paintings, aesthetic treatises, abolitionist newspapers, slave narratives, novels, and grave markers. It also traces the birth of a distinctly modern form of sacred space at the nexus of mass print culture, the physical spaces of an expanding and urbanizing nation, and the religious images and narratives that ordinary Americans used to orient their lives. The chapter investigates the efforts of Protestant evangelical publishing societies to teach readers to use the landscape to understand their own spiritual lives and their role in sacred history. It talks about the “evangelical space” that ultimately spread beyond devotional culture to infuse popular literature, art, and politics.Less
This chapter provides a background on the relationship of religious media and the landscape in the antebellum United States in order to rethink the meaning of space in American culture. It traverses a range of genres and media including sermons, landscape paintings, aesthetic treatises, abolitionist newspapers, slave narratives, novels, and grave markers. It also traces the birth of a distinctly modern form of sacred space at the nexus of mass print culture, the physical spaces of an expanding and urbanizing nation, and the religious images and narratives that ordinary Americans used to orient their lives. The chapter investigates the efforts of Protestant evangelical publishing societies to teach readers to use the landscape to understand their own spiritual lives and their role in sacred history. It talks about the “evangelical space” that ultimately spread beyond devotional culture to infuse popular literature, art, and politics.
