Religion and Modernity in India

Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar

Religion and Modernity in India - Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 - 323p

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Modernity, Religion, and secularism Society, religion, and modernity in Postcolonial India ...21 possession, Alterity, modernity ......36 2. Modernity, religion, and the communities The dravidian Idea in Missionary accounts of south Indian Religion..........67 Locating the self, community, and the nation : Writing the history of the srivaisnavas of South India .........84 Sedentarization and Changing contours of Religious identities : The Case of the Pastoral Van Gujjars of the Himalayas ........107 Religion, erotic Sensibilities and Marginality ......133 3. Secularism, Religion, and Politics Rethinking the Religious-Secular Binary in Global politics : M A Jinnah and Muslim Nationalism in South Asia ................157 Modernity, citizenship and hindu nationalism : Hindu mahasabha and its Reorientation Debate, 1947-52 Bipolar Coalition system in Kerala : Carries and Gatekeepers of Communal forces in Politics ...209 The ritual Of Power and power of the ritual : An interface between relition and politics ......238 4. Religious practices of the Diaspora Cultural reproduction and the reconstruction of Identities in the Indian diaspora............267 Durability and change : Anglo-Indian religious practice in India and the Diaspora .........290

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