Faith and Social Movements
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 28 February 2018
- 06 September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781316711200
- 9781107166622
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.44kg, 242 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Social Theory, Sociology of Religion, Sociology
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Book description
How do we understand the multitude of faith movements in our post-secular world? Faith and Social Movements explores this question by analyzing the theology and practice as well as the transformation of two discrepant religious movements in contemporary India. The research opens up a conversation between the sociology of religion and social movements. Using a comparative lens, two different movements - a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - have been studied in ethnographic detail. The book is divided into two parts. The first part dwells on Svadhyaya, a Hindu reform movement, and the second part on the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic reform movement. Focusing on the internal dynamics of these movements and the 'unintended consequences' of piety, the author argues that it is only by raising new questions vis-à-vis religion, secularity and civil society that their entanglement could be uncovered. This book aims to raise some of these questions.
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