Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia Contributor(s): Pemberton, Kelly (Editor), Nijhawan, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138868329 ISBN-13: 9781138868328 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Religion, Politics & State - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 305.095 |
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.79 lbs) 254 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian - Religious Orientation - Hindu - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. Contributors to this volume are particularly interested in how alternative forms of belonging and religious imaginations in South Asia are articulated in the light of normative, authoritative, and exclusive claims upon the representation of identities. Building upon new and extensive historiographical and ethnographical data, the book challenges clear-cut categorizations of group identity and points to the complex historical and contemporary relationships between different groups, organizations, in part by investigating the discursive formations that are often subsumed under binary distinctions of dominant/subaltern, Hindu/Muslim or orthodox/heterodox. In this respect, the book offers a theoretical contribution beyond South Asia Studies by highlighting a need for a new interdisciplinary effort in rethinking notions of identity, ethnicity, and religion. |