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Religion and the city in India / edited by Supriya Chaudhuri

Chaudhuri, Supriya, 1935- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group [2022], 2022

xi, 232 Seiten

Englisch

Literaturangaben

2107

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID). Univ. Heidelberg, CATS, Südasi

978-0-367-90144-8 ((hbk)); 978-1-032-05958-7 ((pbk))

978100302944f(ebk) (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021008949

OCoLC: 1268464096     

MS 1275  | BE 8000  | MS 6750      Ähnliche Literatur

BL65.C57

306.60954/091732

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-ASIEN-DE-16

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LOC-SH: Cities and towns -- Religious aspects ; Cities and towns -- India ; India -- Religion

"This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context. Uniting the historical with the contemporary by looking at the medieval and early modern links between religious faith and urban settlement, the book brings together a series of focused studies of the mixed and multiple practices and spatial negotiations of religion in the South Asian city. It looks at the various ways in which contemporary religious practice affects urban everyday life, commerce, craft, infrastructure, cultural forms, art, music and architecture. Chapters draw upon original empirical study and research to analyse the foundational, structural, material and cultural connections between religious practice and urban formations or flows. The book argues that Indian cities are not 'postsecular' in the sense that the term is currently used in the modern West, but that there has been, rather, a deep, even foundational link between religion and urbanism, producing different versions of urban modernity. Questions of caste, gender, community, intersectional entanglements, physical proximity, private or public ritual, processions and prayer, economic and political factors, material objects, and changes in the built environment, are all taken into consideration, and the book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of different historical periods, different cities, and different types of religious practice. Filling a gap in the literature by discussing a diversity of settings and faiths, the book will be of interest to scholars on South Asian history, sociology, literary analysis, urban studies and cultural studies"--