Images of the World Essays on Religion, Secularism, and Culture
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2008
- 398p
includes index and biblioraphy
1.Religion and secularism .......1 Religion in the modern world ............3 Freedom of Religion ..........29 Secularism revisited ............75 2. Religious and secular identites .......147 The dialetics of religion and ethnicity in Bangladesh, punjab, and kashmir ..........149 Kashmir, kashmiris, kashmiriyat ..........175 3. Religious traditions and values ........207 India`s religious traditions ...211 The household tradition in Hindu society ..........242 Dying with dignity .............276 The soicology of Hinduism ........294 4. CUltural Traditions and conceptual Categories .............319 Holism and individualism ..............321 The private and the Public : Considerations of Cultural Context ................354