Deceptive Majority Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion

This is an ethnographic history of religious majoritarianism and its sly subversion by one of India's most oppressed minorities.

Info autore

Joel Lee teaches and conducts research on religion, language, caste and the state in South Asia. In particular his work concerns the ways in which Dalits – those communities historically stigmatized as 'untouchable' – combat structural deprivation, navigate the politics of religious majoritarianism, and contend with the sensory and environmental entailments of sanitation labor in colonial and postcolonial India. His research and teaching interests also include linguistic anthropology, semiotics, popular Hinduism and Islam, and Urdu and Hindi literature.

Riassunto

An account of contemporary religious life in Lucknow illuminates the embrace and contestation of Hinduization in a Dalit community, it examines the practices by which signs of the community's Hindu affiliation are amplified and tied to a new ethic of publicity. Lee tracks Dalit religion to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joel Lee, Joel (Williams College Lee, Lee Joel
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.11.2020
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi
• EAN: 9781108826662
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82666-2
• Numero di pagine: 354
• Serie: South Asia in the Social Sciences
• Categorie: Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, Social groups, Religion & politics, Social issues & processes, Ethical issues & debates, Religion and Politics, Social and ethical issues, Physical anthropology, Ethical issues and debates, Social groups, communities and identities