₨ 3,145
ISBN: 0802803733
Publisher: WILLIAM B. EERDMANS
Subtitle: FAITH AND STRUGGLE IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Author: GORDON SPYKMAN
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| Weight | 0.32 kg |
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| ISBN | 0802803733 |
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| Publication Date | 1988 |
| Pages | 271 |
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ISBN: 0485195100
Publisher: ATHLONE PRESS
Subtitle: THE MANAGEMENT OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND IDENTITY
Author: PETER VAN DER VEER
ISBN: 0140272240
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA
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Author: VED MEHTA
ISBN: 1851681752
Publisher: ONE WORLD
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Author: KLAUS K. KLOSTERMAIER
In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Harjot Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through a searching examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikh tradition was not concerned with establishing distinct religious boundaries. Most Sikhs recognized multiple identities grounded in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. Consequently, religious identities were highly blurred and several competing definitions of what constituted a Sikh were possible.
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by social and cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity. The ethnocentric logic of a new elite dissolved alternative ideals under the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism.
A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this important book calls into question basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities. An essential book for the field of South Asian religions, this work is also an important contribution to cultural anthropology, postcolonial studies, and the history of religion in general.
ISBN: 0226615928
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Subtitle: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY IN THE SIKH TRADITION
Author: HARJOT OBEROI
Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, this text took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times. Instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, the author claimed that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding.
ISBN: 0415314542
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
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Author: MARY DOUGLAS
ISBN: 186064029X
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS
Subtitle: THE SAINTS IN THE ITALIAN CITY-STATES
Author: DIANA WEBB
ISBN: 0415233933
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
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Author: GEOFFREY PARRINDER
ISBN: 0691099928
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR PERSPECTIVES ON THE ETHICAL PLURALISM IN THE MODERN WORLD
Author: RICHARD MADSON
