Title:
Religion and modernity in India / edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Aloka Parasher Sen.
Author:
Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara, editor.
Parasher-Sen, Aloka, editor.
Publication Information:
New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Call Number:
BL2015.S6 R43 2017
Abstract:
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.
Geographic Term:
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199467785
9780199087631
Physical Description:
vi, 323 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Modernity, Religion, and Secularism -- Society, Religion, and Modernity in Postcolonial India / Possession, Alterity, Modernity / Modernity, Religion, and the Communities -- The Dravidian Idea in Missionary Accounts of South Indian Religion / Locating the Self, Community, and the Nation: Writing the History of the Srivaisnavas of South India / Sedentarization and Changing Contours of Religious Identities: The Case of the Pastoral Van Gujjars of the Himalayas / Religion, Erotic Sensibilities, and Marginality / Secularism, Religion, and Politics -- Rethinking the `Religious -- Secular' Binary in Global Politics: M.A. Jinnah and Muslim Nationalism in South Asia / Modernity, Citizenship, and Hindu Nationalism: Hindu Mahasabha and Its `Reorientation' Debate, 1947 -- 52 / Bipolar Coalition System in Kerala: Carriers and Gatekeepers of Communal Forces in Politics / The Ritual of Power and Power of the Ritual: An Interface between Religion and Politics / Religious Practices of the Diaspora -- Cultural Reproduction and the Reconstruction of Identities in the Indian Diaspora / Durability and Change: Anglo-Indian Religious Practice in India and the Diaspora
