基本説明
Examines how religion plays a significant role in the cohesion and operation of identities in South Asia.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface - C N VenugopalIntroduction - Rowena RobinsonPART ONE: RELIGION, SOCIETY AND NATIONAL IDENTITYVisions of Nationhood and Religiosity - Proshanta NandiNational Integration and Religion - A R DesaiReligion and Economic Development - M S A RaoThe Indo-Islamic Tradition - A R MominEthnic Process and Minority Identity - Nirmala SrinivasanA Comparative Study of Muslims and Christians of UPManipur Vaishnavism - Kunj Behari SinghA Sociological InterpretationC N VenugopalFactor of Anti-Pollution in the Ideology of the Lingayat MovementThe Immortal Cowherd and the Saintly Carrier - Ursula M SharmaAn Essay in the Study of CultsEmergence of Shrines in Rural Tamil Nadu - L Thara BhaiA Study of Little TraditionsSome Neglected Aspects of the Conversion of Goa - Rowena RobinsonA Socio-Historical PerspectiveThe First Protestant Mission to India - D Dennis HudsonIts Social and Religious Developments Issues of Christianity in Colonial Chhattisgarh - Saurabh DubeEmancipation through Proselytism? - N JayaramSome Reflections on the Marginal Status of the Depressed Castes PART FOUR: RELIGION BEYOND INDIA'S BORDERSReligion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh - Tanveer FazalThe Influence of Indian Islam on Fundamentalist Trends in Trinidad and Tobago - Nasser MustaphaReligious Resurgence in Contemporary United States - Ananta GiriA View from India
