T N Madan

Modern Myths, Locked Minds

Secularism and Fundamentalism in India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the ideologies of secularism and fundamentalism in the setting of the religious traditions of India, covering Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism. It has a new preface where the author revisits the debate on secularism in India and contemporarises it for the reader. It also has two new appendices on secularism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198065104
• ISBN-10: 0198065108
• Artikelnr.: 37255104

Autorenporträt

T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor (Sociology) at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
* 1.: Introduction: Scope, Concepts, Method
* 2.: The Sikh Religious Tradition: Meanings of Secularism
* 3.: The Sikh Religious Tradition: Fundamentalisms, Old and New
* 4.: Islam in South Asia: From Orthodoxy to Fundamentalism
* 5.: Islam in South Asia: Quest for Pluralism
* 6.: The Hindu Religious Tradition: Secularism as Pluralism
* 7.: The Hindu Religious Tradition: revivalism and Fundamentalism
* 8.: The Crisis of Indian Secularism
* Epilogue
Appendix I: Secularism in its Place
Appendix II: Secularism Revisited: Doctrine of Destiny or Political Ideology?
Glossary
References
Index