Sociology of Religion in India
In South Asia, religion plays a significant role in the cohesion and operation of identities. Ethic and religious identities rarely disappear with modernity. Rather, modernity refashions religious idenities in various ways.\ Sociologists have acknowledged the importance of the role of religion and are increasingly factoring it into their accounts. This volume is, therefore, of great value. The articles selected look at religious customs and traditions, conversion and national identity,...
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Indian Sociological Society, the series reprints articles from the Sociological Bulletin in thematic volumes. The 16 articles cover religion, society, and national identity; sects, cults, shrines, and the making of traditions; some sociological issues regarding religious conversion in India; and the influence of Indian religion in Pakistan and Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, and the US. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Series Note9Foreword12Acknowledgements14Introduction15Pt. IReligion, Society and National Identity1Visions of Nationhood and Religiosity among Early Freedom Fighters in India372National Integration and Religion543Religion and Economic Development684The Indo-Islamic Tradition845Ethnic Process and Minority Identity: A Comparative Study of Muslims and Christians of UP100Pt. IISects, Cults, Shrines and the Making of Traditions6Manipur Vaishnavism: A Sociological Interpretation1257The Factor of Anti-Pollution in the Ideology of the Lingayat Movement1338The Immortal Cowherd and the Saintly Carrier: An Essay in the Study of Cults1499Emergence of Shrines in Rural Tamil Nadu: A Study of Little Traditions165Pt. IIIReligious Conversion in India: Some Sociological Issues10Some Neglected Aspects of the Conversion of Goa: A Socio-Historical Perspective17711The First Protestant Mission to India: Its Social and Religious Developments19912Issues of Christianity in Colonial Chhattisgarh23113Emancipation through Proselytism? Some Reflections on the Marginal Status of the Depressed Classes256Pt. IVReligion Beyond India's Borders14Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh27515The Influence of Indian Islam on Fundamentalist Trends in Trinidad and Tobago30216Religious Resurgence in Contemporary United States: A View from India323Related Readings in the Sociological Bulletin343About the Editor344About the Contributors345Index348
