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  • The Vernacular

    Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

    de Hans Harder, Nishat Zaidi, Torsten Tschacher ...
    This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’ in colonial and postcolonial settings. It addresses recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of South Asia in relation to English. The authors explore the range of meanings the term has assumed and trace a history of contestation since the colonial age ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora

    Beyond Mourning

    Edición de Pushkar Sohoni, Torsten Tschacher ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian Religion Series
    This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Muḥarram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Breaking new ground by bringing together a variety of regional perspectives (the Deccan, the Punjab, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago) and linguistic backgrounds (Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu), the chapters discuss ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia

    Edición de Deepra Dandekar, Torsten Tschacher ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    This book looks at the study of ideas, practices and institutions in South Asian Islam, commonly identified as ‘Sufism’, and how they relate to politics in South Asia. While the importance of Sufism for the lives of South Asian Muslims has been repeatedly asserted, the specific role played by Sufism in contestations over social and political belonging in South Asia has not yet been fully analysed ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Race, Religion, and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore

    de Torsten Tschacher ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia
    Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore’s otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore’s Malay-dominated Muslim institutions. Since the 1980s, demands for a better representation of Indian Muslims and access to ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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    de Timothy Daniels ...
    Series series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives through analyzing a diverse range of cultural forms, including government or palace-based celebrations, ceremonies and rituals, modern student theatre, and ... Leer más

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  • Frontiers of Embedded Muslim Communities in India

    Edición de Vinod K. Jairath ...
    This volume approaches the study of Muslim societies through an evolutionary lens, challenging Islamic traditions, identities, communities, beliefs, practices and ideologies as static, frozen or unchangeable. It assumes that there is neither a monolithic, essential or authentic Islam, nor a homogeneous Muslim community. Similarly, there are no fixed binary oppositions such as between the ulama and ... Leer más

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  • Margins of Citizenship

    Muslim Experiences in Urban India

    de Anasua Chatterjee ...
    Series series Religion and Citizenship
    Part of the ‘Religion and Citizenship’ series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation faced by Muslim communities and the various ways in which they negotiate it in the course of their everyday lives. By narrating lived experiences of ordinary Muslims, the author attempts to construct ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora

    Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies

    Edición de Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed, Lomarsh Roopnarine ...
    This is the fourth publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname. The core of the book is based on a conference panel which focused specifically on the experience of Muslim with indentured migrants and their ... Leer más

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  • Islamic Revivalism

    Encounter the Modern World (A Study of the Tabligh Jamaat)

    de Jan A. Ali ...
    Contemporary Islamic revivalism is a multi-dimensional and multi-faceted phenomenon. This book explores this phenomenon through an ethnographic study of the worlds largest Islamic revivalist movement, the Tabligh Jamaat (Convey [message of Islam] Group). The basic contention of the book is that contemporary Islamic revivalism is a defensive reaction to the crisis of modernity, yet it is neither ... Leer más

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  • The Quest for Meaning

    Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

    de Tariq Ramadan ...
    In The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism, Tariq Ramadan embarks on a journey to uncover the profound truths that bind us together.In a world so full of different beliefs and viewpoints, how can we find peace in our shared humanity?Acclaimed thinker and philosopher Tariq Ramadan explores universal ideas such as love, respect, truth and tolerance, and examines questions such as ... Leer más

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  • The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions

    Edición de John R. Hinnells ...
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  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edición de Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
    People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as ... Leer más

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