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Essays on Religion, Secularism, and Culture
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9780195698343
Publication date:
09/07/2008
Paperback
408 pages
216x140mm
Price: 595.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780195698343
Publication date:
09/07/2008
Paperback
408 pages
Madan
Essays deal with the significance of religion in Indian society,Will help in our understanding of both tradition and modernity in South Asia,Writings of one of the renowned Indian sociologists,Will interest political scientists, sociologists, historians, as also an informed lay audience
Rights: World Rights
Madan
Description
This collection of essays engages with the persistence of religion in the modern world, the rise of processes of rationalization, secularization, and cultural change. It argues that the rise of religion as a faith and as a political ideology made the last century a short one. Expectations of the decline of religion were never fulfilled. In these circumstances freedom of religion and religious pluralism acquired great salience. Secularism has been viewed critically and some forms of it have turned out to be seriously flawed. The volume further argues that the relationship between fundamentalism and secularism is more complex than previously imagined and not merely one of antagonism.
About the Author
Madan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Madan
Table of contents
Preface
Part I Religion and Secularism
1:Religion in the Modern World
2:Freedom of Religion
3:Secularism in its Place
4:Secularism in India: Predicaments and Prospects
5:Secularism Revisited: Doctrine of Destiny or Political Ideology?
Part II Religious and Secular Identities
6:The Dialectic of Religion and Ethnicity in Bangladesh, Punjab, and Kashmir
7:Kashmir, Kashmiris, Kashmiriyat
Part III Religious Traditions and Values
8:Indias Religious Traditions: Some Conceptual Categories
9:The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society
10:Dying with Dignity
11:The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading Backwards from Srinivas to Weber
Part IV Cultural Traditions and Conceptual Categories
12:Holism and Individualism: Louis Dumont on India and the West
13:The Private and the Public: Considerations of Cultural Context
Index
Madan
Description
This collection of essays engages with the persistence of religion in the modern world, the rise of processes of rationalization, secularization, and cultural change. It argues that the rise of religion as a faith and as a political ideology made the last century a short one. Expectations of the decline of religion were never fulfilled. In these circumstances freedom of religion and religious pluralism acquired great salience. Secularism has been viewed critically and some forms of it have turned out to be seriously flawed. The volume further argues that the relationship between fundamentalism and secularism is more complex than previously imagined and not merely one of antagonism.
About the Author
Madan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Table of contents
Preface
Part I Religion and Secularism
1:Religion in the Modern World
2:Freedom of Religion
3:Secularism in its Place
4:Secularism in India: Predicaments and Prospects
5:Secularism Revisited: Doctrine of Destiny or Political Ideology?
Part II Religious and Secular Identities
6:The Dialectic of Religion and Ethnicity in Bangladesh, Punjab, and Kashmir
7:Kashmir, Kashmiris, Kashmiriyat
Part III Religious Traditions and Values
8:Indias Religious Traditions: Some Conceptual Categories
9:The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society
10:Dying with Dignity
11:The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading Backwards from Srinivas to Weber
Part IV Cultural Traditions and Conceptual Categories
12:Holism and Individualism: Louis Dumont on India and the West
13:The Private and the Public: Considerations of Cultural Context
Index
T. N. Madan
Susan Viswanathan
Rowena Robinson, Sathianathan Clarke
Studies in Religion and the Everyday
Farhana Ibrahim
T.N.M Madan
