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INDIA'S RELIGIONS
PERSPECTIVES FROM SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY |
| By: |
T. N. M. Madan (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198074905 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198074908 |
| Publisher: |
OUP INDIA |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2011 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Series: |
Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology |
| Pages: |
444 |
| 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
India |
| Imprint: |
OUP India |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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