ISBN:
9780192889386
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Religions, Mumbai style
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Cosmopolitanism
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Mumbai
;
Religiöses Fest
;
Religiöses Leben
;
Religiöser Pluralismus
Abstract:
A collection of ethnographic essays on the city of Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay), the volume questions the city's claim of a 'self-projected' cosmopolitanism by exploring its relationship with religion.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface by Michael Stausberg -- Contributors -- A Note on the Use of Italics and Diacritics -- 1. Religion in Bombay/Mumbai: A Scenario -- 2. Beyond Diversity-Precarious Belonging and Religious Conjunctions: Dalits in Dharavi -- 3. Does Violence Beget the Ghetto? Evidence from Ethnography in Mumbra -- 4. Encountering Religious Difference in the City: Some Reflections on the Participation of Ismaili Muslims in Islamic Revivalism in Mumbai -- 5. Twelver Shia Muslims' Right to the City: Public Performance, Media Practices, and Urban Atmospheres in Mumbai -- 6. Middle Class Muslims in Mumbai: Three Forms of Engagement with Islam -- 7. 'God is with the Patient People': Festival, Class, and Interreligious Engagement -- 8. Transgressive Spaces: Women's Organizations and Intentional Interventions in Politics of Interreligious Marriage -- 9. Strategic Roadside Shrines in High-Risk Zones: Baba for Peace -- 10. Taxis as Public Micro-Spaces of Religion: Practices, Symbols, and Communication -- 11. Movement and Place-Making: Multiple Crossings in the Lives of Mumbai's ISKCON Members -- 12. Towards the Apocalyptic: Myth, Metaphor, and the Dystopic in Contemporary Mumbai Literature -- 13. A Hole in the Wall: Religion in the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar -- Index.
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