Civil Society In Malerkotla Punjab

Author : Karenjot Bhangoo Randhawa
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780739167373

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Civil Society in Malerkotla, Punjab by Karenjot Bhangoo Randhawa Pdf

Civil Society in Malerkotla, Pubjab: Fostering Resilience through Religion by Karenjot Bhangoo Randhawa explores the direct role that religion plays in conflict and peace that has often been difficult to isolate. Randhawa extends previous work on peace and conflict resolution by looking at the town of Malerkotla, Punjab which has witnessed many outbreaks of violence in the past but still holds peace as the norm. As a case study, this book uncovers how religious associations, expressions and activities have helped to build social capital and stabilize peace.

Author : Yogesh Snehi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515637

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Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab by Yogesh Snehi Pdf

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and provides an insight into their urban and rural landscapes in the post-Partition (Indian) Punjab. What happened to these shrines when attempts were made to dissuade Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus from their veneration of popular saints in the early twentieth century? What was the fate of popular shrines that persisted even when the Muslim population was virtually wiped off as a result of migration during Partition? How did these shrines manifest in the context of the threat posed by militants in the 1980s? How did such popular practices reconfigure themselves when some important centres of Sufism were left behind in the West Punjab (now Pakistan)? This book examines several of these questions and utilizes a combination of analytical tools, new theoretical tropes and an ethnographic approach to understand and situate popular Sufi shrines so that they are both historicized and spatialized. As such, it lays out some crucial contours of the method and practice of understanding popular sacred spaces (within India and elsewhere), bridging the everyday and the metanarratives of power structures and state formation. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers and those engaged in interdisciplinary work in history, social anthropology, historical sociology, cultural studies, historical geography, religion and art history, as wel as those interested in Sufism and its shrines in South Asia.

Author : Churnjeet Mahn,Anne Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319645162

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Partition and the Practice of Memory by Churnjeet Mahn,Anne Murphy Pdf

This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence memories and can be subverted in important ways, through consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards that which has been lost – that is, the cultural whole that was the cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and linguistic lines – alongside forces that deny such connections. The chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).

Author : Karan Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000880038

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Syncretic Shrines and Pilgrimages by Karan Singh Pdf

This book looks at various syncretic traditions in India, such as Bhakti, Nath Yogi, Sufi, Imam Shahi, Ismailis, Khojas, and others, and presents an elaborate picture of a redefined cultural space through them. It also investigates different syncretisms—Hindu–Muslim, Hindu– Muslim–Christian and Aboriginal-Ethnic—to understand diverse aspects of hybridity within the Indian nation space. It discusses how Indian nationalism was composed of different opinions from its inception, reflecting its rich diversity and pluralistic traditions. The book traces the emergence of multiple contours of Indian nationalism through the historical trajectory of religious diversity, lingering effects of colonialism, and experimentation with secularism. This volume caters to scholars and students interested in cultural studies, religion studies, pilgrimage studies, history, social anthropology, historical sociology, historical geography, religion, and art history. It will also be of interest to political theorists and general readers.

Author : Donovan O. Schaefer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781478022879

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Wild Experiment by Donovan O. Schaefer Pdf

In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and contemporary literary criticism, Schaefer reconceptualizes rationality as defined by affective processes at every level. He introduces the model of “cogency theory” to reconsider the relationship between evolutionary biology and secularism, examining mid-nineteenth-century Darwinian controversies, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s. Along the way, Schaefer reappraises a range of related issues, from secular architecture at Oxford to American eugenics to contemporary climate denialism. These case studies locate the intersection of thinking and feeling in the way scientific rationality balances excited discovery with anxious scrutiny, in the fascination of conspiracy theories, and in how racist feelings assume the mantle of rational objectivity. The fact that cognition is felt, Schaefer demonstrates, is both why science succeeds and why it fails. He concludes that science, secularism, atheism, and reason itself are not separate from feeling but comprehensively defined by it.

Author : Group of Authors
Publisher : MAC Prague consulting
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788088085270

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Proceedings of MAC 2019 by Group of Authors Pdf

Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Education, Teaching and Learning, Czech Republic, Prague (MAC-ETL 2019) Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Management, Marketing and Economics, Czech Republic, Prague (MAC-MME 2019) Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Transport, Tourism and Sport Science, Czech Republic, Prague (MAC-TTSS 2019)

Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300272680

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Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji Pdf

A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan "[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history of the Indian subcontinent that rejects hegemonic conceptions of national 'difference.'"--Financial Times This radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region's unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and Pakistan. Taking the partitions of British India rather than the two world wars as the century's inflection points, Joya Chatterji examines how issues of nationalism, internal and external migration, and technological innovation contributed to South Asia's tumultuous twentieth century. Chatterji weaves together elements of her autobiography and family history; stories of such legendary figures as Tagore, Jinnah, Gandhi, and Nehru; and, in particular, the accounts of the many who were left behind and marginalized in relentless nation-building projects. Chatterji examines the countries' mirroring patterns in state building, social and cultural life, modes of leisure, consumption, and oppression, and offers a timely course correction to our understanding of the dynamics of South Asian history. It reframes the events of the twentieth century that are continuing to play out in the present day.

Author : Fumihiko Seta,Arindam Biswas,Ajay Khare,Joy Sen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811021381

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Understanding Built Environment by Fumihiko Seta,Arindam Biswas,Ajay Khare,Joy Sen Pdf

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also includes case studies substantiating theoretical research. This method of composition helps the book to maintain rational balance among theory, research and its contextual application. The book comprises selected papers from the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment. The chapters provide varied viewpoints on the core issues of urbanization and planning. This compilation would be of interest to students, researchers, professionals and policy makers.

Author : Anna Bigelow
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195368239

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Sharing the Sacred by Anna Bigelow Pdf

The author looks at a place where the conditions for religious conflict are present, but active conflict is absent, focusing on a Muslim majority Punjab town (Malkerkotla) where both during the Partition and subsequently there has been no inter-religious violence.

Author : James K. Wellman, Jr.,Clark Lombardi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199827732

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Religion and Human Security by James K. Wellman, Jr.,Clark Lombardi Pdf

Since the1950s the world has witnessed a period of extraordinary religious revival in which religious political parties and non-governmental organizations have gained power around the globe. At the same time, the international community has come to focus on the challenge of promoting global human security. This groundbreaking book explores how these trends are interacting. In theoretical essays and case studies from Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, the Americas, Africa and Europe, the contributors address such crucial questions as: Under what circumstances do religiously motivated actors advance or harm human welfare? Do certain state policies tend to promote security-enhancing behavior among religious groups? The book concludes by providing important suggestions to policymakers about how to factor the influence of religion into their evaluation of a population's human security and into programs designed to improve human security around the globe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1470 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Muslims
ISBN : UOM:39015062123727

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Muslim India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anshu Malhotra,Farina Mir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199088775

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Punjab Reconsidered by Anshu Malhotra,Farina Mir Pdf

What is Punjabiyat? What are the different notions of Punjab? This volume analyses these ideas and explores the different aspects that constitute Punjab as a region conceptually in history, culture, and practice. Each essay examines a different Punjabi culture—language-based and literary; religious and those that define a 'community'; rural, urban, and middle class; and historical, contemporary, and cosmopolitan. Together, these essays unravel the complex foundations of Punjabiyat. The volume also shows how the recent history of Punjab—partition, aspirations of statehood, and a large and assertive diaspora—has had a discernible impact on the region's scholarship. Departing from conventional studies on Punjab, this book presents fresh perspectives and new insights into its regional culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131546348

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joginder Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351986342

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Religious Pluralism in Punjab by Joginder Singh Pdf

This book analyses the heterogeneous modes of meditation, prayer, initiation, beliefs and practices, codes of conduct, ethics and life-style of the contemporary Sikh Sants, Babas, Gurus and Satgurus in Punjab.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Punjab
ISBN : UVA:X004278170

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Proceedings - Punjab History Conference by Anonim Pdf