Translocal Lives and Religion

Philippe Bornet has been studying and researching in the history of religions, South Asian and Jewish studies at the universities of Lausanne, Tubingen and the University of Chicago. Since 2012, he teaches and researches in the Department of South Asian studies at the University of Lausanne. His research interests are in methods and theory in the study of religion, religion and orientalism, South Asian religions, Christian missions in South India and new medias. He published Rites et pratiques de l'hospitalite: mondes juifs et indiens anciens (2010), Religions in Play: Games, Rituals, and Virtual Worlds (ed. with Maya Burger, 2012) and L'orientalisme des marges: perspectives de l'Inde et de la Russie (ed. with Svetlana Gorshenina, 2014).

• PrefaceSujit Sivasundaram, Cambridge UniversityEditor’s IntroductionPhilippe BornetPart I: Introduction1. From Comparative to Connected Religion: Translocal Aspects of Orientalism and the Study of ReligionPhilippe BornetPart II: Transnational Trajectories and Individual Appropriations of Religion 2. “In-Between” Religiosity: European Kālī-bhakti in Early Colonial CalcuttaGautam Chakrabarti, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Freie Universität Berlin3. The Making of the Ideal Transnational Disciple: Unravelling Biographies of Margaret Noble/Sister NiveditaGwilym Beckerlegge, The Open University4. The Curious Case of the Drs. D’Abreu: Catholicism, Migration and a Kanara Catholic Family in the Heart of the Empire, 1890-1950Dwayne Ryan Menezes, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London5. Religion and the “Simple Life”: Dugald Semple and Translocal “Life Reform” NetworksSteven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh6. Re-discovering Buddha’s Land: The Transnational Formative Years of China’s IndologyMinyu Zhang, Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityPart III: Religions on the Move7. Charles Pfoundes and the Forgotten First Buddhist Mission to the West, London 1889Brian Bocking, University College Cork8. Travelling through Interstitial Spaces: The Radical Spiritual Journeys of Pandita Mary Ramabai SaraswathiParinitha Shetty, Mangalore University9. A “Christian Hindu Apostle”? The Multiple Lives of Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889‒1929?)Philippe Bornet10. The Chen Jianmin (1906-1987) Legacy: An “Always on the Move” Buddhist PracticeFabienne Jagou, École française d’Extrême-Orient, ParisPart IV: In Summary11. AfterwordMaya Burger, University of Lausanne