Religious Nationalism - Hindus & Muslims in India (Paper)

1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-520-08256-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several disciplines—anthropology, history, social theory, literary studies—to show how Indian religious identities have been shaped by pilgrimage, migration, language development, and more recently, print and visual media.

Van der Veer's central focus is the lengthy dispute over the Babari mosque in Ayodhya, site of a bloody confrontation between Hindus and Muslims in December 1992. A thought-provoking range of other examples describes the historical construction of religious identities: cow protection societies and Sufi tombs, purdah and the political appropriation of images of the female body, Salman Rushdie and the role of the novel in nationalism, Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda, the Khalsa movement among Sikhs, and nationalist archaeology and the televised Ramayana.

Van der Veer offers a new perspective on the importance of religious organization and the role of ritual in the formation of nationalism. His work advances our understanding of contemporary India while also offering significant theoretical insights into one of the most troubling issues of this century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Veer, Peter van der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Religious Nationalism
2. Religious Formations
3· Ritual Communication
4· Peregrinations
5· Conceptions of Time
6. Words and Gestures
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter van der Veer is Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre (1988).