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Nation, nationalism and the public sphere: religious politics in India

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sage Publications India 2020 New DelhiDescription: vi, 265 p.: ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9789353883805
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 322.10954 N2
Summary: From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India provides wide-ranging accounts of the growth and transformations of the nation, focusing especially on the intimate interplay of nation-state and nationalism with dominant religion. Drawing upon the perspectives of history, politics, anthropology, literature, film and media studies, this book explores key themes such as the appropriation and impact of western concepts of religion and the modern in postcolonial India and Pakistan, corporate bids to foster faith by erecting temples, formations of contemporary cosmopolitan religious imaginaries, the politics of cow protection, the rise of Narendra Modi as a national hero, and the fetish of the national in news channel debates. The book provides important insights into the success of the Hindu-Right, the discourse of religious–cultural nationalism, and their ramifications for democracy and citizenship. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/nation-nationalism-and-the-public-sphere/book274702
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Table of contents

Introduction: Nation, Religion, Identity—Crisscrossing Concerns/ Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Avishek Ray

Creating Discord
1. The Clash of Religious Politics in India/ Mark Juergensmeyer
2. Women’s Rights between Modernity and Tradition: ‘Modernizing’ Islam

Beyond Binaries
3. Journeying in the Vernacular: Pilgrimage, Tourism and Nationalism in Hindi Travelogues/ Shobna Nijhawan

Critical Geneology
4. Race, Religion and the Politics of Counting: Historicizing Hindu Nationalism/ Sayori Ghoshal

Spatializing Religion
5. Temple Construction and the Coming of a Nation: The Birla Mandir in Delhi/ Anne Hartig

The Realm of Faith
6. Guru-led Faith Movements: The Case of the Art of Living Foundation/ Himani Kapoor

Chronicling the Everyday
7. Rethinking Cow ‘Protection’: Gender, Caste and Labour at a Gaushala/ Ridhima Sharma

The Hero as a Metaphor
8. The Nation and the Hero, or the 56 Inch Paradox/ Manjima Chatterjee

Screening the Other
9. The Question of Minority Citizenship: Shah Rukh Khan as the 'Global Indian'/ Sreya Mitra

Broadcasting and Recasting
10. Screening Hindutva: Religion and Television in India/ Maribel Elliet Alvarado Becerril

Of Sacred Geography
11. Sacred Spaces and Gendered Sites: The Daikho of the Dimasa/ Prithibi Gogoi

From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India provides wide-ranging accounts of the growth and transformations of the nation, focusing especially on the intimate interplay of nation-state and nationalism with dominant religion.
Drawing upon the perspectives of history, politics, anthropology, literature, film and media studies, this book explores key themes such as the appropriation and impact of western concepts of religion and the modern in postcolonial India and Pakistan, corporate bids to foster faith by erecting temples, formations of contemporary cosmopolitan religious imaginaries, the politics of cow protection, the rise of Narendra Modi as a national hero, and the fetish of the national in news channel debates. The book provides important insights into the success of the Hindu-Right, the discourse of religious–cultural nationalism, and their ramifications for democracy and citizenship.

https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/nation-nationalism-and-the-public-sphere/book274702

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