Studies in religion and the everyday /
"The volume is a collection of essays that address the contours of religious belief and practice in the context of everyday life in India. The chapters, taken together, present a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion in India that will enable a reconceptualization of religion--as...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in contemporary Indian society.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Section I. Capital, Urban Development, and Social Histories of the City
- Maṭhs, Quotidian Conflicts, and Urban Property: Perspectives from Colonial Legal Archives in Banaras / Malavika Kasturi
- Walking with the Gods: Re-Making Ooru in a Global City / Usha Rao
- Abhimanyus in Exile: Entanglements and Bonds among Migrant Workers in Delhi / Shankar Ramaswami
- Section II. Secularization, Democratization, and Community
- 'What Kind of Hindu Are You?' Muscular Hinduism and the Making of Majorities and Minorities / Moyukh Chatterjee
- Bovine Sifters: Cows, Indigeneity, and Environmentalism among an Urban Middle-Class Guru Following / Benu Verma
- 'Like a Sackcloth Patch on Muslin': The Anti-Caste Pasmanda Narration of the Muslim Social / Khalid Anis Ansari
- Everyday Religiosity among the Hindu Sindhis of India: Sindhi Identity and the Religious Market in the Era of Social Networks / Michel Boivin and Trisha Lalchandani
- Section III. Markets, Materiality, and Social Reproduction through Labour, Work, and Employment
- Devi or Art History? Reading Entangled Narratives on the Lineage of Artisanal Skill from Telangana / Chandan Bose
- Religion and Employment in India / Girish Bahal and others
- Taleem, Hunar, Tarbiyat: Meanings of Education and Vocation for Muslim Women in Old Delhi / Madhulika Sonkar
- Religion, Religious, and Beliefs: The Life of Religion in an Indian Scientific Research Institute / Renny Thomas
- Section IV. Boundaries and Thresholds, Sacred and Secular Sovereignties
- Crafty Devis of the Thar: Refashioning Charani Sagatis in the Indo-Pak Borderlands / Tanuja Kothiyal
- Sounds of Religion or Sonic Disorders: Everyday Religiosity in the Borderland District of Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir / Malvika Sharma
- The Sounds of Everyday Christianity: Listening to the Protestant Mission in Nineteenth-Century Madras / Aparna Balachandran.