Outgrowth of an international workshop on the subject of South Asian ethical practices held in Vancouver, Canada in September 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ethical publicity : on transplant victims, wounded communities, and the moral demands of dreaming / Lawrence Cohen. Disciplining the senses, schooling the mind : inhabiting virtue in the Tamil TinĐnĐai school / Bhavani Raman -- Ethical traditions in question : diaspora Jainism and the environmental and animal liberation movements / James Laidlaw -- Vernacular capitalists and the modern subject in India : law, cultural politics, and market ethics / Ritu Birla -- The ethics of textuality : the Protestant sermon and the Tamil public sphere / Bernard Bate -- Empire, ethics, and the calling of history / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Between intuition and judgment : moral creativity in Theravada Buddhist ethics / Charles Hallisey -- Young manliness : ethical culture in the gymnasiums of the medieval Deccan / Emma Flatt -- Ethical subjects : time, timing, and tellability / Leela Prasad -- Demoralizing developments : ethics, class, and student power in modern North India / Craig Jeffrey -- Living by dying : Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the warrior / Ajay Skaria -- Moral and spiritual striving in the everyday : to be a Muslim in contemporary India / Veena Das -- Ethical publicity : on transplant victims, wounded communities, and the moral demands of dreaming / Lawrence Cohen.
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