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Informationen zum Autor T.N. Madan is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi. Klappentext This collection engages with the persistence of religion in the modern world, the rise of processes or rationalization, secularization, and cultural change. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays engages with the persistence of religion in the modern world, the rise of processes of rationalization, secularization, and cultural change. It argues that the rise of religion as a faith and as a political ideology made the last century a short one. Expectations of the decline of religion were never fulfilled. In these circumstances freedom of religion and religious pluralism acquired great salience. Secularism has been viewed critically and some forms of it have turned out to be seriously flawed. The volume further argues that the relationship between fundamentalism and secularism is more complex than previously imagined and not merely one of antagonism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part I Religion and Secularism 1: Religion in the Modern World 2: Freedom of Religion 3: Secularism in its Place 4: Secularism in India: Predicaments and Prospects 5: Secularism Revisited: Doctrine of Destiny or Political Ideology? Part II Religious and Secular Identities 6: The Dialectic of Religion and Ethnicity in Bangladesh, Punjab, and Kashmir 7: Kashmir, Kashmiris, Kashmiriyat Part III Religious Traditions and Values 8: Indias Religious Traditions: Some Conceptual Categories 9: The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society 10: Dying with Dignity 11: The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading Backwards from Srinivas to Weber Part IV Cultural Traditions and Conceptual Categories 12: Holism and Individualism: Louis Dumont on India and the West 13: The Private and the Public: Considerations of Cultural Context Index
