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Hinduism in India : modern and contemporary movements / editors Will Sweetman and Aditya Malik.

Contributor(s): Series: Hinduism in IndiaPublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789351502319
  • 9351502317
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hinduism in India.DDC classification:
  • 294.50954 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1153.5 .H56 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The emergence and significance of the term "Hinduism" / Geoffrey A. Oddie -- Hinduism and modernity / Will Sweetman -- Hinduism and law / Timothy Lubin -- Hinduism and economics / Thomas Birtchnell -- The sacred in modern Hindu politics: historical processes underlying Hinduism and Hindutva / Robert Eric Frykenberg -- Media Hinduism / Ursula Rao -- Modern Hindu guru movements / Michael James Spurr -- Folk Hinduism: the middle ground? / Aditya Malik -- Hinduism and healing / Fabrizio M. Ferrari -- Possession / Elisabeth Schömbucher -- The urban Hindu arranged marriage in contemporary Indian society / Reshmi Lahiri-Roy -- On Hinduism and caste / Vinay Kumar Srivastava.
Summary: A major contribution towards the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The emergence and significance of the term "Hinduism" / Geoffrey A. Oddie -- Hinduism and modernity / Will Sweetman -- Hinduism and law / Timothy Lubin -- Hinduism and economics / Thomas Birtchnell -- The sacred in modern Hindu politics: historical processes underlying Hinduism and Hindutva / Robert Eric Frykenberg -- Media Hinduism / Ursula Rao -- Modern Hindu guru movements / Michael James Spurr -- Folk Hinduism: the middle ground? / Aditya Malik -- Hinduism and healing / Fabrizio M. Ferrari -- Possession / Elisabeth Schömbucher -- The urban Hindu arranged marriage in contemporary Indian society / Reshmi Lahiri-Roy -- On Hinduism and caste / Vinay Kumar Srivastava.

A major contribution towards the ongoing debates on the nature and history of Hinduism in India.

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