Sociology of Religion in India (Themes in Indian Sociology series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761997822 ISBN 13: 9780761997825

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

In South Asia, religion plays a significant role in the cohesion and operation of identities. Ethic and religious identities rarely disappear with modernity. Rather, modernity refashions religious idenities in various ways.

Sociologists have acknowledged the importance of the role of religion and are increasingly factoring it into their accounts. This volume is, therefore, of great value. The articles selected look at religious customs and traditions, conversion and national identity, sectarian conflict and fundamentalism - issues that bear not only upon local and regional contexts but have wider implications as well.

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Review:

`This book is dense with information and well structured. It gives a good overview of the extraordinary variety of Christian life in India and maps out the terrain for further reseearch... any serious student of Christianity in India will find this book very valuable. It ought to be read - however unlikely it is for this to happen - by all those who are contesting the place of Christianity in contemporary India' - Journal of Contemporary Religion

`This volume, which also provides an excellent select bibliography, is therefore to be welcomed by all those interested in the study of Indian Christianity' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761997822
• ISBN 13: 9780761997825
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 359
• Editor: Robinson Rowena