Dear Elaine, This looks fantastic. Ordering it now for both myself and the library!
Best, Ralph Ralph H. Craig III, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Religion Whitman College Book: *Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner <https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/>* (2023 Foreword Indies Award Finalist for Biography) On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 10:56 AM Elaine Fisher via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > With apologies for the cross-posting, I am delighted to announce the > publication of my book, *The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in > Early Modern India*, published by OUP in the AAR Religion in Translation > series: > https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-meeting-of-rivers-9780197833216?cc=us&lang=en&# > . > > *The Meeting of Rivers* reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest > religion, Vīraśaivism (or Liṅgāyatism) from its own voices, drawing on > unstudied and unpublished archival sources in Sanskrit and multiple south > Indian vernacular languages, in dialogue with the early history of Śaivism. > By radically reframing our understanding of the origins of Vīraśaivism, the > book provides a counterpoint to inherited models of both Hindu devotional > traditions as well as the history of vernacularization in South Asia. > Simultaneously, *The Meeting of Rivers* articulates a new conceptual > vocabulary for speaking in comparative theoretical terms about > multilingualism and translation. > > As a book series editor myself, I would like to invite all of you to > request that your university libraries purchase a copy (as well as the > books of all of our colleagues!). Our academic publishing industry > continues to depend on the support of university libraries to allow the > sort of work we all do to continue in future generations. > > If you would like to purchase a hard copy of the book, I invite you all to > make use of and share this 30% off discount code from OUP, valid for orders > placed on global.oup.com: AUFLY30. > > All the best, > Elaine > > > -------- > Elaine M. Fisher > Associate Professor > Department of Religious Studies > Stanford University > Editor, *Religion in Translation*, AAR/OUP > > *The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India* > > https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-meeting-of-rivers-9780197833216?cc=us&lang=en&; > *Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South > India* > https://www.ucpress.edu/books/hindu-pluralism/paper > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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