Religion and Modernity in India

Religion and Modernity in India PDF Author: Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199467785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Quatrième de couverture: "Through a series of case studies taken from everyday experiences of people following a variety of religions, this book interrogates the supposed epistemological dualism between modernity and religion in India. Through a study of oral and textual traditions, examining the perspectives of women and other marginal social and regional groups, as well as the diaspora, it presents dynamically interacting textures of society-historically and in our contemporary times-engaging with modernity in divergent ways"