TY - BOOK AU - Patra, Soumyajit AU - Patra,Soumyajit TI - Rethinking Religion SN - 8131602672 U1 - SS10 PY - 2010/// CY - Jaipur PB - Rawat Publications N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Section I Beliefs Diversified 1 When Deviance Becomes Sin: Christian World-view Re-examined Anton Senekal 2 Buddhist Compassion and the Moral Nihilism Jeffrey Grupp 3 Religion and Social Change: Hinduism Revisited Pramod Kumar Singh 4 The Very Idea of Religion: An Islamic Perspective Mahmoud Khatami 5 Karma, God and Rebirth P.K. Mohapatra Section II Religion Theorized 6 Rethinking Marx and Religion Alberto Toscano 7 Nietzsche and Religion Hakan Sandgren 8 Durkheim and the Sociology of Religion Swapan Kumar Pramanick 9 Max Weber: The Sociology of Religion Kathleen A. Riddel I 10 Interrogating Religion: A Critique from the Enlightenment Perspective Soumyajit Patra Section III The Local and the Global 11 Understanding Tribal Religion: The Garos in Bangladesh Zahidul Islam and S.M. ArifMahmud 12 Understanding Punjabi Folk Religion: Grappling the Field and Framework Harvinder Singh Bhatti 13 Education for Experience: One View of Tibetan Tantric Initiation Brian J. Given 14 Globalization and Religion: Beyond the Primacy of the Political Ananta Kumar Giri ER -