Dear colleagues,

(with apologies for cross-posting)

I am pleased to announce the publication of

‘Reorienting the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in Contemporary India’.

This is a special Issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies (17-3, Dec. 2013, appeared in Feb. 2014), guest edited by Andrea Marion Pinkney and myself.

<http://rd.springer.com/journal/11407/17/3/>

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CONTENTS

Reorienting the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in
Contemporary India (pp. 221–228)
Andrea Marion Pinkney and Andrea Acri

An Ever-Present History in the Land of the Gods: Modern Māhātmya
Writing on Uttarakhand (pp. 229–260)
Andrea Marion Pinkney

"Stories of God": Contemporary Oral Performance of Bhāgavatakathā
(pp. 261–286)
McComas Taylor

The Vedamūrti: Embodying the Veda in Contemporary Maharashtra
(pp. 287–312)
Borayin Larios

Re-scripting the Legends of Tuḷjā Bhavānī : Texts, Performances,
and New Media in Maharashtra
(pp. 313–337)
Kiran A. Shinde

The Powers of Polyglossia: Marathi Kīrtan, Multilingualism, and
the Making of a South Indian Devotional Tradition
(pp. 339–369)
Davesh Soneji

The Great Ārdrā Darśanam Festival: Performing Śaiva Ritual Texts
in Contemporary Chidambaram (pp. 371–398)
Aleksandra Wenta

Rājayoga: The Reincarnations of the King of All Yogas
(pp. 399–442)
Jason Birch

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Andrea Acri

(On behalf of Andrea Marion Pinkney and myself)