Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond write by Steven E. Lindquist. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the ascetic and legal traditions of India, but his work as both a researcher and a teacher extends beyond early Indian religion and literature. ‘Religion and Identity and South Asia and Beyond’ is a testament to that influence. The contributions in this volume, many by former students of Olivelle, are committed to linguistic and historical rigor, combined with sensitivity to how the study of Asia has been changing over the last several decades.
Beyond Turk and Hindu
Beyond Turk and Hindu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Turk and Hindu write by David Gilmartin. This book was released on 2009-09-24. Beyond Turk and Hindu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond Caste
Beyond Caste - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Caste write by Sumit Guha. This book was released on 2013-09-12. Beyond Caste available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.
Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora
Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora write by Rajesh Rai. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.
Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia
Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia write by Kelly Pemberton. This book was released on 2009-01-13. Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work focuses on processes of articulating identity. The notions of "shared idioms" and "sacred symbols" shaping this volume suggest both a search for common ground and boundary-drawing processes. Individual chapters locate "sites" of these modes and the conditions that engender them, problematizing the truth-claims of unitary markers of identity.
