Religion in India /
This resource will encourage readers to reflect on religious and secular engagements and help uncover how they connect to the larger world of law, entertainment, civic life, and everyday cultural practices.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford India short introductions.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This resource will encourage readers to reflect on religious and secular engagements and help uncover how they connect to the larger world of law, entertainment, civic life, and everyday cultural practices. |
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| Abstract: | "Religion in India is a constantly evolving and transformative phenomenon that cannot be seen in isolation from other dimensions of life. This concise yet comprehensive introduction explores the diverse landscape of religion in India, addressing questions of religious history, everyday practices, intersections with caste, and its role in shaping personal and collective identities in modern India. Methodologically interdisciplinary, it invites critical engagement with the pervasive presence of religion in the public and private lives of Indians and its consequences on an array of institutional and relational registers. It brings to the fore religious actors and interlocutors, nodes and networks, the state and its management of religious difference, and other such compounds that make religion such a vital element of India's body politic. As such, this book is an invaluable primer for general readers, students, and researchers, interested in a simultaneously critical and sympathetic understanding of religion in contemporary India"-- Oxford Academic. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198986713 0198986718 9780198958352 0198958358 |