Christians of India: An Anthropology of Religion - Brossura

Robinson, Rowena

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0761997822 ISBN 13: 9780761997825

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2003

Riassunto

In South Asia, religion plays a significant role in the cohesion and operation of identities. Ethic and religious identities rarely disappear with modernity. Rather, modernity refashions religious idenities in various ways.

Sociologists have acknowledged the importance of the role of religion and are increasingly factoring it into their accounts. This volume is, therefore, of great value. The articles selected look at religious customs and traditions, conversion and national identity, sectarian conflict and fundamentalism - issues that bear not only upon local and regional contexts but have wider implications as well.

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Preface - C N Venugopal
Introduction - Rowena Robinson
PART ONE: RELIGION, SOCIETY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Visions of Nationhood and Religiosity - Proshanta Nandi
National Integration and Religion - A R Desai
Religion and Economic Development - M S A Rao
The Indo-Islamic Tradition - A R Momin
Ethnic Process and Minority Identity - Nirmala Srinivasan
A Comparative Study of Muslims and Christians of UP
PART TWO: SECTS, CULTS, SHRINES AND THE MAKING OF TRADITIONS
Manipur Vaishnavism - Kunj Behari Singh
A Sociological Interpretation
C N Venugopal
Factor of Anti-Pollution in the Ideology of the Lingayat Movement
The Immortal Cowherd and the Saintly Carrier - Ursula M Sharma
An Essay in the Study of Cults
Emergence of Shrines in Rural Tamil Nadu - L Thara Bhai
A Study of Little Traditions
PART THREE: RELIGIOUS CONVERSION IN INDIA: SOME SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES
Some Neglected Aspects of the Conversion of Goa - Rowena Robinson
A Socio-Historical Perspective
The First Protestant Mission to India - D Dennis Hudson
Its Social and Religious Developments
Issues of Christianity in Colonial Chhattisgarh - Saurabh Dube
Emancipation through Proselytism? - N Jayaram
Some Reflections on the Marginal Status of the Depressed Castes
PART FOUR: RELIGION BEYOND INDIA'S BORDERS
Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh - Tanveer Fazal
The Influence of Indian Islam on Fundamentalist Trends in Trinidad and Tobago - Nasser Mustapha
Religious Resurgence in Contemporary United States - Ananta Giri
A View from India

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• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761997822
• ISBN 13: 9780761997825
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 359