Images of the World
Essays on Religion, Secularism, and Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 31 July 2008
- ISBN 9780195698343
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages410 pages
- Size 208x132x22 mm
- Weight 465 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This collection engages with the persistence of religion in the modern world, the rise of processes or rationalization, secularization, and cultural change.
MoreLong description:
This collection of essays engages with the persistence of religion in the modern world, the rise of processes of rationalization, secularization, and cultural change. It argues that the rise of religion as a faith and as a political ideology made the last century a short one. Expectations of the decline of religion were never fulfilled. In these circumstances freedom of religion and religious pluralism acquired great salience. Secularism has been viewed critically and some forms of it have turned out to be seriously flawed. The volume further argues that the relationship between fundamentalism and secularism is more complex than previously imagined and not merely one of antagonism.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Part I Religion and Secularism
Religion in the Modern World
Freedom of Religion
Secularism in its Place
Secularism in India: Predicaments and Prospects
Secularism Revisited: Doctrine of Destiny or Political Ideology?
Part II Religious and Secular Identities
The Dialectic of Religion and Ethnicity in Bangladesh, Punjab, and Kashmir
Kashmir, Kashmiris, Kashmiriyat
Part III Religious Traditions and Values
Indias Religious Traditions: Some Conceptual Categories
The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society
Dying with Dignity
The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading Backwards from Srinivas to Weber
Part IV Cultural Traditions and Conceptual Categories
Holism and Individualism: Louis Dumont on India and the West
The Private and the Public: Considerations of Cultural Context
Index
