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Studies in Religion and the Everyday

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Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays addressing the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyday life in India. Events and processes in contemporary India--especially post the 1990s--have contributed to distinct modes of articulating religious practices. This volume is an attempt to historicize--and problematize--the categorization of religion as a universally held and analytically distinct feature of human life and seeks to understand the conditions--historical, political, discursive--and processes of authorization under which a particular set of practices, values, and dispositions constitutes the 'religious' at a specific point in time. By bringing together studies that draw from diverse methodological and epistemological approaches, the book will serve as a useful introduction to religion in India for the general reader and as an indispensable resource for students and researchers. The volume presents fresh perspectives on existing fields of study such as the city, capital, minorities, secularization, and the state--no longer seen as distinct from religion but actively co-produced with religion in the context of the theoretical rubric of the everyday--thereby marking a departure from approaching the question of religion solely through the lens of identity and conflict.

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ISBN: 9780198902782
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Author: Farhana Professor, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Ibrahim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 400 pages
Series: Oxford Studies in Contemporary Indian Society
Genres: Sociology
Cultural studies: customs and traditions
Religion and politics
Social and cultural anthropology