Sociology of Religion in IndiaRowena Robinson Focused on the theme of the sociology of religion, this volume brings together essays by well-known scholars which examine the resurgence of religious identities in the Indian context. The contributors question many received notions, address critical problems, and raise important issues surrounding various current debates./-//-/The papers are divided into four sections. The first deals with religion, society and national identity. The next section is devoted to sects, cults, shrines and the making of traditions. The third section discusses religious conversion, while the last section provides a comparative perspective drawn from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States. /-//-/Tackling a subject of immense contemporary importance and demonstrating a sensitivity to the shifts and changes brought about in faith, identity and tradition, this volume will be of considerable interest to students of sociology, anthropology, religion, politics and history./-//-/This book is one of the Indian Sociological Society: Golden Jubilee Volumes. |
Contents
Series Note | 9 |
RELIGION SOCIETY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY | 35 |
National Integration and Religion | 54 |
Religion and Economic Development | 68 |
The IndoIslamic Tradition | 84 |
A Comparative | 100 |
SECTS CULTS SHRINES AND THE MAKING OF TRADITIONS | 123 |
An Essay | 149 |
RELIGIOUS CONVERSION IN INDIA SOME SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES | 175 |
Its Social | 199 |
Issues of Christianity in Colonial Chhattisgarh | 253 |
Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood | 275 |
The Influence of Indian Islam on Fundamentalist Trends | 302 |
Related Readings in the Sociological Bulletin | 343 |
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