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This volume examines the intellectual trajectories of remarkable individuals who interacted with religious discourses, doctrines or practices in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inspired by S. Subrahmanyam and S. Gruzinski's historiographical model of connected histories , this book introduces the approach of connected religion and invites the study of cross-cultural and translocal encounters by bringing together documents that represent diverse aspects of the story and reconstructing a narrative from diverse standpoints, with analytical potential. Testing this approach through specific cases of interactions between Asia and Europe, the volume explores the little-known stories of actors such as migrants or expatriates interacting with religious discourses, and of religious leaders producing and propagating beliefs and practices. The cases pose questions that can be applied to further contexts, such as: the significance of improved travels and communications for the diffusion of religious content across national, cultural and institutional boundaries; the impact of specific individuals, charismatic or not, well-established or subaltern in the reconfiguration of institutional forms of religion; and the role of the South Asian referent in legitimating the propagation of specific religious views. Offering both an innovative methodological framework and original cases based on new research, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion, to specialists of South Asia in late modernity and to the broader public.

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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).

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