[INDOLOGY] Publication Announcement, The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India

[Ralph Craig]

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 <
indology at list.indology.info> 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 unstudied and unpublished archival sources in Sanskrit and multiple south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
>
>
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