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South Asia Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

South Asia Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1230

Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1873
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Belief and Bloodshed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Belief and Bloodshed

Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world_it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new. Chronologically organized, the book shows religiously motivated violence across a variety of historical periods and cultures, moving from the ancient to medieval to the modern world, ending with an essay comparing the speeches of an ancient king to the speeches of the current U.S. President.

Religion in Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Religion in Context

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Religion Index Two
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1304

Religion Index Two

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Accessions List, South Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1244

Accessions List, South Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Buddhist Studies Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 744

Buddhist Studies Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Perspectives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Buddhist Tourism in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Buddhist Tourism in Asia

This innovative collaborative work—the first to focus on Buddhist tourism—explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socioeconomic and cultural trends in the region. Following an introduction that offers the first theoretical understanding of tourism from a Buddhist studies’ perspective, early chapters discuss the ways Buddhists and non-Buddhists imagine concepts and places related to the religion. Case studies highlight Bud...