Studies in Religion and the Everyday (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198902812
• Artikelnr.: 70175524

Autorenporträt

Farhana Ibrahim is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. A social anthropologist, her research interests include the study of borders, policing, migration, and ethnographic perspectives on the state. With a PhD from Cornell University, her ethnographic research, spanning almost two decades, centres on the western Indian region of Kutch. Her first book, Settlers, Saints, and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India (Routledge, 2009) focuses on Muslim pastoral communities in Gujarat along the Kutch-Sindh border. Her second book, From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border (Cornell University Press, 2021) is an ethnography of policing, civil-military relations, kinship, and surveillance on a South Asian borderland. She has also co-edited South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect (with Tanuja Kothiyal; Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Section I: Capital, Urban Development, and Social Histories of the
City
* 1: Malavika Kasturi: Maths, Quotidian Conflicts, and Urban Property:
Perspectives from Colonial Legal Archives in Banaras
* 2: Usha Rao: Walking with the Gods: Re-making Ooru in a Global City
* 3: Shankar Ramaswami: Abhimanyus in Exile: Entanglements and Bonds
Among Migrant Workers in Delhi
* Section II: Secularization, Democratization, and Community
* 4: Moyukh Chatterjee: "What Kind of Hindu Are You?" Muscular Hinduism
and the Making of Majorities and Minorities
* 5: Benu Verma: Bovine Sifters: Cows, Indigeneity, and
Environmentalism Among an Urban Middle-Class Guru Following
* 6: Khalid Anis Ansari: "Like a Sackcloth Patch on Muslin": The
Anti-Caste Pasmanda Narration of the Muslim Social
* 7: Michel Boivin and Trisha Lalchandani: Everyday Religiosity among
the Hindu Sindhis of India: Sindhi Identity and the Religious Market
in the Era of Social Networks
* Section III: Markets, Materiality, and Social Reproduction Through
Labour, Work, and Employment
* 8: Chandan Bose: Devi or Art History? Reading Entangled Narratives on
the Lineage of Artisanal Skill from Telangana
* 9: Girish Bahal, Ujaan Chandra, Sriya Iyer, and Anand Shrivastava:
Religion and Employment in India
* 10: Madhulika Sonkar: Taleem, Hunar, Tarbiyat: Meanings of Education
and Vocation for Muslim Women in Old Delhi
* 11: Renny Thomas: Religion, Religious, and Beliefs: The Life of
Religion in an Indian Scientific Research Institute
* Section IV: Boundaries and Thresholds, Sacred and Secular
Sovereignties
* 12: Tanuja Kothiyal: Crafty Devis of the Thar: Refashioning Charani
Sagatis in the Indo-Pak Borderlands
* 13: Malvika Sharma: Sounds of Religion or Sonic Disorder? Religion
and Everyday Life in the Borderland of District Poonch, Jammu and
Kashmir
* 14: Aparna Balachandran: The Sounds of Everyday Christianity:
Listening to the Protestant Mission in 19th Century Madras