Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone
Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone

Author: Joanne Punzo Waghorne

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0231107773

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Drawing from topics of religion in India such as bhakti, puja rituals, and spirit posessions, these essays offer a close study of the physical representations of god as the central feature of Hinduism. A valuable tool for students of anthroplogy and the philosophy and history of religion.

Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration
Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration

Author: Raymond Brady Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1351143107

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The dual foci for this collection of the author's most important writings are Swaminarayan Hinduism and South Asian immigrants in the United States. Both are topics of wide and growing interest in India and in many countries where South Indians have settled. Swaminarayan Hinduism's growth in the past few decades in India and among Indians abroad has been remarkable: one subsect now has 8100 centers around the world where weekly meetings are held. The second focus is on the religions of South Asian immigrants: Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs and Christians. The first section is introductory and sets the stage through an analysis of the transmission of religious traditions. The second section moves from the development of Swaminarayan Hinduism and its leadership in India to its development in the United States as exemplified in Chicago. The third section analyzes the impact South Asian religions are having in the United States, and the effects that migration and modernization are having on the religions of the immigrants.

Global Religious Movements Across Borders
Global Religious Movements Across Borders

Author: Stephen M. Cherry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1317127323

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From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and creation of a transnational civil society. Exploring how religious roots are shaping organizations that seek to aid people across political and geographic boundaries - 'service movements' - this book focuses on how religious movements establish structures to assist people with basic human needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Examining a multitude of faith traditions with origins in different parts of the world, seven contributing chapters, with an introduction and conclusions by the senior author, offer a unique discussion of the intersections between religious transnationalism and social movements.

A Cultural History of Modern India
A Cultural History of Modern India

Author: Som Prakash Sharma

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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Presents a brief account of Indian culture in the nineteenth century. The work reveals an inner consistency by examining the entire cultural tradition in the light of the two fundamental principles that have shaped India's destiny throughout her long history: unity in the midst of diversity, and continuity at the heart of change. The author has shown the simultaneous working of these two basic features in all the important areas of Indian culture in the nineteenth century' philosophical and religious thought, literature, and the arts.