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“manoj kumar das”

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  • Televising Religion in India

    An Anthropological Reading

    by Manoj Kumar Das ...
    This book explores how religion manifests itself in television. It focuses on how religious traditions, practices, and discourses have been incorporated into non-religious television programmes and how they bring both the community and the media into the fold of religion.The volume traces the cultural and institutional history of television in the state of Sikkim, India, to investigate how it ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive?

    by Rajiv Malhotra ...
    There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India. The Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti - Indian civilization - concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Indra's Net

    by Rajiv Malhotra ...
    Originating in the Atharva Veda, the concept of Indra's Net is a powerful metaphor for interconnectedness. It was transmitted via Buddhism's Avatamsaka Sutra into Western thought, where it now resides at the heart of post-modern discourse. According to this metaphor, nothing ultimately exists separately by itself and all boundaries can be deconstructed. This book invokes Indra's Net to articulate ... Read more

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  • Sculpting the Middle Class

    History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha

    by Deepa Sreenivas ...
    This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th century. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • I Am Divine. So Are You

    How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities

    by Devdutt Pattanaik, Jerry Johnson ...
    In 2015, a historic panel discussion took place at the global Festival of Theology held in Sweden. Its objective was to examine what the sacred texts of the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - had to say about human sexuality.By bringing in perspectives from the Karmic faiths of Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism, which together represent the beliefs of almost a third of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Secularizing Buddhism

    New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition

    by Sarah Shaw, Bhikku Bodhi, Kate Crosby, Roger L. Jackson ...
    A timely essay collection on the development and influence of secular expressions of Buddhism in the West and beyond.How do secular values impact Buddhism in the modern world? What versions of Buddhism are being transmitted to the West? Is it possible to know whether an interpretation of the Buddha’s words is correct?In this new essay collection, opposing ideas that often define Buddhist ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

    Edited by Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    by Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Winged Faith

    Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement

    by Tulasi Srinivas ...
    The Sathya Sai global civil religious movement incorporates Hindu and Muslim practices, Buddhist, Christian, and Zoroastrian influences, and "New Age"-style rituals and beliefs. Shri Sathya Sai Baba, its charismatic and controversial leader, attracts several million adherents from various national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. In a dynamic account of the Sathya Sai movement's explosive ... Read more

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  • The God Market

    How Globalization is Making India More Hindu

    by Meera Nanda ...
    Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplacetends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developingcountries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book,this is hardly the case in todays India. Against expectations ofgrowing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwiningof Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growingcapitalist ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tamil Brahmans

    The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

    by C. J. Fuller, Haripriya Narasimhan ...
    " An impressive biography. . . . [A] standard reference in the scholarship of Tamil Nadu and the conundrum of caste and class." — American AnthropologistA cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a global visibility of rapid economic advancement and ... Read more

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