India's Religions
Perspectives from Sociology and History
Series: Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 8 December 2011
- ISBN 9780198074908
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages444 pages
- Size 216x141x26 mm
- Weight 442 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This well-structured and organized collection of readings examines different facets of religion and religious life in India from ethnographic and historical perspectives. The second edition includes a new Appendix with a comparative regional perspective, and a new Preface.
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Religion occupies an important place in both the private and public domains in India. This volume is a collection of essays on India's major religions as practised in everyday life. It approaches religion from the perspectives of ethnography and history. It takes stock of traditions, culture, history, and politics of India's faiths. The readings explore sacred places and performances, bonding, mediators and thinkers, charisma, spiritual power and innovation, which are significant components of cultural traditions as well. Beginning with the concept of the sacred defined by its otherness, the book proceeds to explore how the hiatus that otherness creates may overcome by bonding via piety and passion. The process of overcoming separation, or bonding, is universally facilitated by mediators of one kind or another, such as magicians, spiritual masters, or martyrs. Traditions are constructed, preserved, and transmitted in a number of ways that include the oral narrative and the literary text. This does not mean, however, that religious traditions are static. They, in fact, grow gradually and sometimes change radically. The dominant themes dealt with here include those of death, food, worship and devotion, spiritual masters, martyrs, and dharma.
The second edition includes a new Appendix with a comparative regional perspective, and a new Preface.
Table of Contents:
Preface to Second Edition
Preface
Introduction: India's Religions: Plurality and Pluralism
T. N. Madan; Section I: Setting Apart: Sacred Places and Performances (Prefatory Remarks)
The Eucharist in a Syrian Christian Church, Susan Visvanathan
The Food Area in a Hindu Home, R. S. Khare
Death and Cosmogony in Kashi, Jonathan P. Parry
Section II: Bonding Together: Piety and Passion
Hindu Worship, C. J. Fuller
Virashaiva Devotion, A. K. Ramanujan
Faith and Suffering in Shia Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed
Section III: Mediations: Charisma and Spiritual Power
Jain Monks, Lawrence A. Babb
Muslim Spiritual Masters, Desiderio Pinto
Sikh Martyrs, Louis E. Fenech
Section IV: Traditions: Oral Narratives and Canonical Texts
Folklore, Viramma, Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine
Dharma, Gavin Flood
The Khalsa Rahit, W. H. McLeod
Section V: Innovations: Religious Creativity and Social Change
The Kabir-Panth, David N. Lorenzen
The Ramakrishna Mission, Krishna Prakash Gupta
Ambedkar's Buddhism, Martin Fuchs
Section VI: Intertwinements: Religion, Society, and Politics
The South Indian Temple: Authority, Honour, and Redistribution, Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge
Church and Community in Goa, Rowena Robinson
Religious Devotion and Politics at Hazratbal in Kashmir, Muhammad Ishaq Khan
Epilogue: Religion in India: An Essay in Interpretation
Appendix: Inclusion and Exclusion in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Notes on Contributors
Index
