Religious nationalism : Hindus and Muslims in India

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Label

Religious nationalism : Hindus and Muslims in India

Title remainder

Hindus and Muslims in India

Statement of responsibility

Peter Van der Veer

Creator

• Veer, Peter van der

Subject

• Hindouisme -- Aspect social -- Inde
• Hinduism -- Social aspects
• Hinduism -- Social aspects
• Hinduism -- Social aspects -- India
• Hinduismus
• Hinduismus
• Identité collective -- Inde
• India
• India
• Indien
• Indien
• Islam
• Islam
• Islam -- Aspect social -- Inde
• Islam -- Social aspects
• Islam -- Social aspects
• Islam -- Social aspects -- India
• Islamieten
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Hinduism
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Hinduism
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Hinduism
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Nationalisme
• Nationalisme -- Aspect religieux
• Nationalisme -- Aspect religieux | Hindouisme
• Nationalisme -- Inde
• Nationalismus
• Nationalismus
• Religieus bewustzijn
• Religion
• Religion
• Religion and politics
• Religion and politics
• Religion and politics -- India
• Hindoes
• hinduizmus -- vallás -- India
• iszlám vallás -- India
• nacionalizmus -- vallásos szempont
• vallás és politika -- India
• Religion et politique -- Inde

Language

eng

Summary

Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several disciplines--anthropology, history, social theory, literary studies--to show how Indian religious identities have been shaped by pilgrimage, migration, language development, and more recently, print and visual media. Van der Veer's central focus is the lengthy dispute over the Babari mosque in Ayodhya, site of a bloody confrontation between Hindus and Muslims in December 1992. A thought-provoking range of other examples describes the historical construction of religious identities: cow protection societies and Sufi tombs, purdah and the political appropriation of images of the female body, Salman Rushdie and the role of the novel in nationalism, Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda, the Khalsa movement among Sikhs, and nationalist archaeology and the televised Ramayana. Van der Veer offers a new perspective on the importance of religious organization and the role of ritual in the formation of nationalism. His work advances our understanding of contemporary India while also offering significant theoretical insights into one of the most troubling issues of this century.--provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

320.5/5/0954

Index

index present

LC call number

BL2015.N26

LC item number

V44 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography