Chetan Bhatt is ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton

• Chapter 1 Knowledge and its alternatives; Chapter 2 Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societies; Chapter 3 The modernity of Islamic movements; Chapter 4 The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialism; Chapter 5 Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purity; Chapter 6 The land, the blood and the passion; Chapter 7 The new materials of ethnogenesis;

Chetan Bhatt is ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton

• Chapter 1 Knowledge and its alternatives; Chapter 2 Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societies; Chapter 3 The modernity of Islamic movements; Chapter 4 The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialism; Chapter 5 Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purity; Chapter 6 The land, the blood and the passion; Chapter 7 The new materials of ethnogenesis;

Chetan Bhatt is ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton

• Chapter 1 Knowledge and its alternatives; Chapter 2 Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societies; Chapter 3 The modernity of Islamic movements; Chapter 4 The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialism; Chapter 5 Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purity; Chapter 6 The land, the blood and the passion; Chapter 7 The new materials of ethnogenesis;