Sociology of Religion in IndiaRowena Robinson In South Asia, religion plays a significant role in the cohesion and operation of identities. Ethic and religious identities rarely disappear with modernity. Rather, modernity refashions religious idenities in various ways. Sociologists have acknowledged the importance of the role of religion and are increasingly factoring it into their accounts. This volume is, therefore, of great value. The articles selected look at religious customs and traditions, conversion and national identity, sectarian conflict and fundamentalism - issues that bear not only upon local and regional contexts but have wider implications as well. |
Contents
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2 National Integration and Religion | 54 |
3 Religion and Economic Development | 68 |
Religious Conversion in India Some Sociological Issues | 175 |
A SocioHistorical Perspective | 177 |
Its Social and Religious Developments | 199 |
12 ues of Christianity in Colonial Chhattisgarh | 231 |
13 Emancipation through Proselytism? Some Reflections on the Marginal Status of the Depressed Classes | 256 |
Religion Beyond Indias Borders | 273 |
14 Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh | 275 |
15 The Influence of Indian Islam on Fundamentalist Trends in Trinidad and Tobago | 302 |
4 The IndoIslamic Tradition | 84 |
A Comparative Study of Muslims and Christians of UP | 100 |
Sects Cults Shrines and the Making of Traditions | 123 |
A Sociological Interpretation | 125 |
7 The Factor of AntiPollution in the Ideology of the Lingayat Movement | 133 |
An Essay in the Study of Cults | 149 |
A Study of Little Traditions | 165 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sociology of Religion in India Themes in Indian Sociology series |
| Editor | Rowena Robinson |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications India, 2004 |
| ISBN | 8132103866, 9788132103868 |
| Length | 359 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Eastern Social Science / Sociology / General Social Science / Sociology of Religion |
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