Faith and Social Movements

Religious Reform in Contemporary India

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

How do we understand the multitude of faith movements in our post-secular world? Faith and Social Movements explores this question by analyzing the theology and practice as well as the transformation of two discrepant religious movements in contemporary India. The research opens up a conversation between the sociology of religion and social movements. Using a comparative lens, two different movements - a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - have been studied in ethnographic detail. The book is divided into two parts. The first part dwells on Svadhyaya, a Hindu reform movement, and the second part on the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic reform movement. Focusing on the internal dynamics of these movements and the 'unintended consequences' of piety, the author argues that it is only by raising new questions vis-à-vis religion, secularity and civil society that their entanglement could be uncovered. This book aims to raise some of these questions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-08
Mått:158 x 236 x 19 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107166622

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Statsskick: demokrati inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Anindita Chakrabarti teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. She was also Visiting Professor at Leipzig University in 2013. Her research interests are sociology of religion, sociology of social movements, sociology of work and sociology of law.

Innehållsförteckning

List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: dissent, religion and civil society; Part I. Svadhyaya Ethics and the Spirit of Voluntarism: 1. Theologies of self-reform: what transforms the cross?; 2. Praxis of an emergent congregation: metaphysics of reform and rebirth; 3. The structure of Lokasamgraha: volunteers, networks and training; 4. Succession, routinization of charisma and judicial religion; Part II. The Tablighi Jamaat's Call for Self-reform: 5. Pedagogy of Tablighi reform: the mission and the messenger; 6. 'Unintended consequences' of piety and discourses of Islamic reform; Conclusion: religion, movements and secularity; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.