| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Aloka Parasher Sen -- Part One. Modernity, Religion, and Secularism: 1. Society, Religion, and Modernity in Postcolonial India / T.K. Oommen ; 2. Possession, Alterity, Modernity / Aditya Malik -- Part Two. Modernity, Religion, and the Communities: 3. The Dravidian Idea in Missionary Accounts of South Indian Religion / Will Sweetman ; 4. Locating the Self, Community, and the Nation: Writing the History of the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India / Ranjeeta Dutta ; 5. Sedentarization and Changing Contours of Religious Identities: The Case of the Pastoral Van Gujjars of the Himalayas / Alok Kumar Pandey and R. Siva Prasad ; 6. Religion, Erotic Sensibilities, and Marginality / Pushpesh Kumar -- Part Three. Secularism, Religion, and Politics: 7. Rethinking the ̀Religious-Secular' Binary in Global Politics: M.A. Jinnah and Muslim Nationalism in South Asia / Aparna Devare ; 8. Modernity, Citizenship, and Hindu Nationalism: Hindu Mahasabha and Its ̀Reorientation' Debate, 1947-52 / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay ; 9. Bipolar Coalition System in Kerala: Carriers and Gatekeepers of Communal Forces in Politics / B.L. Biju ; 10. The Ritual of Power and Power of the Ritual: An Interface between Religion and Politics / N. Sudhakar Rao and M. Ravikumar -- Part Four. Religious Practices of the Diaspora: 11. Cultural Reproduction and the Reconstruction of Identities in the Indian Diaspora / Aparna Rayaprol ; 12. Durability and Change: Anglo-Indian Religious Practice in India and the Diaspora / Brent Howitt Otto and Robyn Andrews |
| Summary |
Through a series of case studies taken from everyday experiences of people following a variety of religions, this book interrogates the supposed epistemological dualism between modernity and religion in India. Through a study of oral and textual traditions, examining the perspectives of women and other marginal social and regional groups, as well as the diaspora, it presents dynamically interacting textures of society-historically and in our contemporary times-engaging with modernity in divergent ways |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 15, 2016) |
| Subject |
Religion and sociology -- India
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Religion and sociology.
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India.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara, editor
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Parasher-Sen, Aloka, editor
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| ISBN |
9780199087631 |
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0199087636 |
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