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Baghdadi Jews in India
Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity
Av Shalva Weil
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after India gained …
Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas
Conceptualizing the Global Ummah
Av Jacqueline H. Fewkes, Megan Adamson Sijapati
Inbunden, 2020
771 kr
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This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya. The Himalaya provide a site of both geographic and cultural …
Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia
Av István Keul
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book explores religion in various spatial constellations in South Asian cities, including religious centres such as Varanasi, Madurai and Nanded, and cities not readily associated with religion, such as Mumbai and Delhi.Contributors from different disciplines discuss a large variety of urban …
Religion and Technology in India
Spaces, Practices and Authorities
Av Knut A. Jacobsen, Kristina Myrvold
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Religion tends to flourish when technological developments create new possibilities for communication and representation, and simultaneously change as a consequence of these developments.This book explores intersections between religion and technology in India, at the present and in the colonial …
Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia
Living with Bengali Bauls
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Noted for their haunting melodies and enigmatic lyrics, Bauls have been portrayed as spiritually enlightened troubadours traveling around the countryside in West Bengal in India and in Bangladesh.As emblems of Bengali culture, Bauls have long been a subject of scholarly debates which center on …
Religion, Space and Conflict in Sri Lanka
Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict. It bears the weight of human dreams and fears. Conflict is caused not only by spatial exclusivism but also by an inclusivism that seeks harmony through subordinating the particularity of the Other to the world view of the majority.This book uses …
Yoga in Modern Hinduism
Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This tradition …
Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia
Av István Keul
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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This book explores religion in various spatial constellations in South Asian cities, including religious centres such as Varanasi, Madurai and Nanded, and cities not readily associated with religion, such as Mumbai and Delhi.Contributors from different disciplines discuss a large variety of urban …
Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan
Sufis and Ulema in 20th Century South Asia
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book examines the history of, and the contestations on, Islam and the nature of religious change in 20th century Pakistan, focusing in particular on movements of Islamic reform and revival.This book is the first to bring the different facets of Islam, particularly Islamic reformism and …
Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan
Sufis and Ulema in 20th Century South Asia
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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This book examines the history of, and the contestations on, Islam and the nature of religious change in 20th century Pakistan, focusing in particular on movements of Islamic reform and revival.This book is the first to bring the different facets of Islam, particularly Islamic reformism and …
Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas
Conceptualizing the Global Ummah
Av Jacqueline H. Fewkes, Megan Adamson Sijapati
Häftad, 2022
557 kr
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This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya. The Himalaya provide a site of both geographic and cultural …
Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora
Beyond Mourning
Av Pushkar Sohoni, Torsten Tschacher
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Muḥarram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Breaking new ground by bringing together a variety of regional perspectives (the Deccan, the Punjab, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago) …
Multi-religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Innovation, Shared Spaces, Contestations
Av Mark P. Whitaker, Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka.The contributors examine the unique and innovative …
Religion and the City in India
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context. Uniting the historical with the contemporary by looking at the medieval and early modern links between religious faith and urban settlement, the book …
Hindu Selves in a Modern World
Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
Av Maya Warrier
Inbunden, 2004
2504 kr
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This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular …
South Asian Religions on Display
Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora
Inbunden, 2008
2512 kr
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Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. Processions are central not only in Hinduism, but also Islam, Christianity, Jainism and Sikhism, which have large procession rituals. The last years have seen an increase in processions and ritualizations of space both in …
Parsis in India and the Diaspora
Av John Hinnells, Alan Williams
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. As pioneers in education in nineteenth century India, and as leading figures in banking and commerce, medicine, law and journalism, they were at the forefront of India's industrial …
Rethinking Religion in India
The Colonial Construction of Hinduism
Av Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
910 kr
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This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as …
Parsis in India and the Diaspora
Av John Hinnells, Alan Williams
Häftad, 2012
934 kr
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The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. As pioneers in education in nineteenth century India, and as leading figures in banking and commerce, medicine, law and journalism, they were at the forefront of India's industrial …
South Asian Religions on Display
Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora
Häftad, 2009
747 kr
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Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. Processions are central not only in Hinduism, but also Islam, Christianity, Jainism and Sikhism, which have large procession rituals. The last years have seen an increase in processions and ritualizations of space both in …
Rethinking Religion in India
The Colonial Construction of Hinduism
Av Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2736 kr
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This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as …
Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia
Disease, Possession and Healing
Inbunden, 2010
2578 kr
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Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in …
Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia
Av Anne Murphy
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and …
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site
Bodh Gaya Jataka
Av David Geary, Matthew Sayers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion – to highlight their various …
Baghdadi Jews in India
Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity
Av Shalva Weil
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
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This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after India gained …
Baghdadi Jews in India
Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity
Av Shalva Weil
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after India gained …
Religion and Technology in India
Spaces, Practices and Authorities
Av Knut A. Jacobsen, Kristina Myrvold
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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Religion tends to flourish when technological developments create new possibilities for communication and representation, and simultaneously change as a consequence of these developments.This book explores intersections between religion and technology in India, at the present and in the colonial …
Religion and the City in India
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context. Uniting the historical with the contemporary by looking at the medieval and early modern links between religious faith and urban settlement, the book …
Ritual Journeys in South Asia
Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space
Av Christoph Bergmann, Jürgen Schaflechner
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This book focuses on the ritualized forms of mobility that constitute phenomena of pilgrimage in South Asia and establishes a new analytical framework for the study of ritual journeys.The book advances the conceptual scope of ‘classical’ Pilgrimage Studies and provides empirical depth through …
Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia
Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers
Av Gil Ben-Herut, Jon Keune m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This book explores the key motif of the religious other in devotional (bhakti) literatures and practices from across the Indian subcontinent unmasks processes of representation that involve adoption, appropriation, and rejection of different social and religious agents.The book reconsiders and …
