Religions, Mumbai Style (eBook, PDF)

Events-Media-Spaces
Redaktion: Stausberg, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for a habitual cosmopolitanism and a series of violent religion-related conflicts and clashes. While there is much academic scholarship on various aspects of urban history and realities, this volume is the first international academic publication focusing on religion(s) in Mumbai. An extended introductory essay provides a scenario of the religious history of the city from the earliest colonial periods to the present; it also discusses such topics as public celebration and landmark religious places. By taking a thematic approach, the contributions highlight the dynamics of religious life in the city. Chapters discuss spatial settings such as so-called slums (Dharavi) and ghettos (Mumbra), but also roadside shrines and taxis. Other chapters focus on class and civil society organizations. Contributions discuss the crossing of religious boundaries, e.g., in dealing with intermarriage and conversion, and challenges faced by religious groups as to how to reconcile the religious diversity of the city with their own desire for recognition. Lines of tension and conflict often run within, and not so much between, communities.The two final chapters of the volume address the reflection of religion in fiction set in Mumbai and in the work of the Bombay poet Arun Kolatkar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192889386
• Artikelnr.: 67756149

Autorenporträt

Michael Stausberg earned his Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of Bonn (1995). He worked at universities in Sweden (Uppsala), Germany (Heidelberg, Tübingen), and Switzerland (Bern) before joining the University of Bergen (Norway) in 2014. Stausberg lectured at the Collège de France (Paris) and the Getty Center (Los Angeles). He was a Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Erfurt). Additionally, he chaired a group at the Center for Advanced Studies, Norwegian Academy of Sciences (Oslo), and was also a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College (Cambridge).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1: Michael Stausberg: Religion in Bombay/Mumbai: A scenario
* 2: Martin Fuchs: Beyond Diversity: Precarious Belonging and Religious
Conjunctions - Dalits in Dharavi
* 3: Sumanya Anand Velamur: Does Violence Beget the Ghetto? Evidence
from Ethnography in Mumbra
* 4: David J. Strohl: Encountering Religious Difference in the City:
Some Reflections on the Participation of Ismaili Muslims in Islamic
Revivalism
* 5: Patrick Eisenlohr: Twelver Shi'i Muslims' Right to the City:
Public Performance, Media Practices, and Urban Atmospheres
* 6: Tanvi Patel-Banerjee: Middle-Class Muslims: Forms and Engagement
with Islam
* 7: Raminder Kaur and Faisal Syed Mohammed: 'God is with the Patient
People': Festival, Class and Interreligious Engagement
* 8: Gopika Solanki: Transgressive Spaces: Women's Organizations and
Intentional Interventions in Politics of Inter-religious Marriage
* 9: Anna Charlotta Osterberg: Strategic Roadside Shrines in High-risk
Zones: Baba for Peace
* 10: Michael Stausberg: Taxis as Public Micro-spaces of Religion:
Practices, Symbols, and Communication
* 11: Claire C. Robison: Movement and Place-making: Multiple Crossings
in the Lives of Mumbai's ISKCON Members
* 12: Heinz Werner Wessler: Towards the Apocalyptic: Myth, Metaphor,
and the Dystopic in Contemporary Mumbai Literature
* 13: William Elison: A Hole in the Wall: Religion in the Poetry of
Arun Kolatkar