Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (Penguin, Rs 395) by Srinivas Aravamudan analyses the language of religious discourse in south Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Aravamudan shows how the transmission and transformation of Eastern religious discourses through the English language have generated a global idiom that challenges Western ideas of cosmopolitanism and produces a unique cosmopolitan discourse. The author studies the religious overtones of Romanticism, nationalism, postmodernism and so on and connects Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and Deepak Chopra with Kipling, Joyce, Oppenheimer and Rushdie. telegraphindia.com Friday , January 4 , 2008 Front Page > Opinion > Paperback Pickings
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