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Author : K. N. Panikkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:226179852
Author : K. N. Panikkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Communalism
ISBN : 8188394122
Author : K. N. Panikkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Hinduism and politics
ISBN : UOM:39015052331496
Focuses On The Alliance Between The Neo-Liberal Economic Policies And Hindu Fundamentalism, Its Implications And The Destruction Of Educational System. Also Discuss The Hindu Right Wing Cultural Project And Outlines The Agenda For Struggle Against This Homegrown Fascism.
Author : Marc Howard Ross
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812203509
From cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper to displays of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina statehouse, acts of cultural significance have set off political conflicts and sometimes violence. These and other expressions and enactments of culture—whether in music, graffiti, sculpture, flag displays, parades, religious rituals, or film—regularly produce divisive and sometimes prolonged disputes. What is striking about so many of these conflicts is their emotional intensity, despite the fact that in many cases what is at stake is often of little material value. Why do people invest so much emotional energy and resources in such conflicts? What is at stake, and what does winning or losing represent? The answers to these questions explored in Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies view cultural expressions variously as barriers to, or opportunities for, inclusion in a divided society's symbolic landscape and political life. Though little may be at stake materially, deep emotional investment in conflicts over cultural acts can have significant political consequences. At the same time, while cultural issues often exacerbate conflict, new or redefined cultural expressions and enactments can redirect long-standing conflicts in more constructive directions and promote reconciliation in ways that lead to or reinforce formal peace agreements. Encompassing work by a diverse group of scholars of American studies, anthropology, art history, religion, political science, and other fields, Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies addresses the power of cultural expressions and enactments in highly charged settings, exploring when and how changes in a society's symbolic landscape occur and what this tells us about political life in the societies in which they take place.
Author : Alyssa Ayres,Philip Oldenburg
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765615932
This volume of India Briefing examines India's changing fortunes through economy, politics, labor, the cultural roots of Hindu nationalism, foreign relations, and Bollywood.
Author : R. Griffin,R. Mallett,J. Tortorice
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230241633
The emerging shape of the post Cold War world provides evidence that rather than diminishing, the profound intersection of political ideology and religious forms of belief is an ever more potent force in world affairs. This volume offers both theoretic underpinnings, and a comparative analysis that elucidates this potent and dangerous phenomenon.
Author : Hulas Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317398745
This book offers one of the first critical evaluations and in-depth analysis of the intellectual movement in Maharashtra in the 19th century. Arguing against the prevalent view that Indian rationality was imported from Europe through the colonial agency, it traces the rational roots of the movement to indigenous intellectual traditions and history. It also questions the centrality assigned to the ‘Bengal Renaissance’ as being the representative of the contemporary intellectual movement in the country. Strongly grounded in primary research, this volume brings forth many new facts and facets into the scholarly discourse on topics such as the idea of ‘Drain’ and the rise of Indian nationalism, so far seen as a predominantly political process divorced from its cultural dimensions. It re-examines the view that cultural consciousness that preceded political agitation was a separate sphere of activity and suggests that both were integral stages of anti-colonialism in the country. The author maintains that rationalism and nationalism were closely connected as a means-and-end continuum. He also provides a new and substantially different understanding of the 19th-century intellectuals Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Pandita Ramabai among others. Lucid, accessible and thought provoking, this book will interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, Indian political thought, sociology, philosophy and Marathi literature.
Author : K. Chowdhury
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230117099
This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India.
Author : Jacob Neusner,Bruce Chilton
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781599471365
Today, and historically, religions often seem to be intolerant, narrow-minded, and zealous. But the record is not so one-sided. In Religious Tolerance in World Religions, numerous scholars offer perspectives on the "what" and "why" traditions of tolerance in world religions, beginning with the pre-Christian West, Greco-Roman paganism, and ancient Israelite Monotheism and moving into modern religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. By tolerance the authors mean "the capacity to live with religious difference, and by toleration, the theory that permits a majority religion to accommodate the presence of a minority religion." The volume is introduced with a summary of a recent survey that sought to identify the capacity of religions to tolerate one another in theory and in practice. Eleven religious communities in seven nations were polled on questions that ranged from equality of religious practitioners to consequences of disobedience. The essays frame the provocative analysis of how a religious system in its political statement produces categories of tolerance that can be explained in that system’s logical context. Past and present beliefs, practices, and definitions of social order are examined in terms of how they support tolerance for other religious groups as a matter of public policy. Religious Tolerance in World Religions focuses attention on the attitude "that the ’infidel’ or non-believer may be accorded an honorable position within the social order defined by Islam or Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism, and so on." It is a timely reference for colleges and universities and for makers of public policy.
Author : Radhika Chopra,Patricia Jeffery
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761933492
The commonsense understanding of `education` rests on the assumption that it has a straightforward positive value. In practice education is profoundly ambiguous in its effects. By focusing on `educational regimes`--and thereby locating values in a broad political terrain encompassing global, national and local contexts--this collection of original essays addresses numerous crucial issues. These include: whether educational regimes relate to other facets of contemporary India society; the extent to which they facilitate the values and ideals enshrined in the Constitution and in policy goals; and the implications of the differential impact of educational regimes on different social groups in India.
Author : Abdul Shaban
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351227605
The fast-consolidating identities along religious and ethnic lines in recent years have considerably ‘minoritised’ Muslims in India. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims, highlighting how, amidst a politics of violence, confusing policy frameworks on caste and class lines, and institutionalised riot systems, the community has also suffered from the lack of leadership from within. At the same time, Indian Muslims have emerged as a ‘mass’ around which the politics of ‘vote bank’, ‘appeasement’, ‘foreigners’, ‘Pakistanis within the country’, and so on are innovated and played upon, making them further apprehensive about asserting their legitimate right to development. The important issues of the double marginalisation of Muslim women and attempts to reform the Muslim Personal Law by some civil society groups is also discussed. Contributed by academics, activists and journalists, the articles discuss issues of integration, exclusion and violence, and attempt to understand categories such as ‘identity’, ‘minority’, ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘nationalism’ with regard to and in the context of Indian Muslims. This second edition, with a new introduction, will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in sociology, politics, history, cultural studies, minority studies, Islamic studies, policy studies and development studies, as well as policymakers, civil society activists and those in media and journalism.
Author : Mark T. B. Laing
Publisher : ISPCK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 8172148380
Author : Utsa Patnaik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Anti-globalization movement
ISBN : UOM:39015070125789
Author : Meera Nanda
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015052549550
The essays in this book connect religious fundamentalism with fascism and talk about the responsibility of intellectuals, argue for linking rationalism and science for the cause of social justice and provide a detailed critique of anti-rationalist and anti-secularist currents dominant in several academic and research circles in India. This little book is a timely reminder to all those who believe in the necessity of intellectual and moral intervention in the present affairs of society and culture. In Three Celebrated And Controversial Essays Meera Nanada Connects Religious Fundamentalism Wirh Fascism And Talks About The Responsibility Of Intellectuals. She Examines The Link Between The Hindutva And Reactionary Modernism, Argues For Linking Ratioalism And Science For The Cause Of Social Justice End Provides A Detailed Critique Of Anti -Rational And Anti- Secularist Currents Dominant In Several Academic And Research Circles In India.
Author : Ashraf Aziz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Motion picture music
ISBN : UOM:39015057511118
Starting With The Premise That Hindustani Cine-Song And Cine-Music Has Been The Main Narrative, Rather Than A Pleasant Diversion, For The Movie-Loving Public, The Author Has Undertaken A Journey Into The Enchanting World Of Singers, Musicians, Lyricists And Assessed Their Contribution As Powerful Creators Of Popular Culture, As Interpreters Of The Subcontinental Ethos, People`S Aspirations And Desires, And As Bold Painters On The Canvas Of Time.
