Identifying And Regulating Religion In India

Author : Geetanjali Srikantan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840531
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship written by Geetanjali Srikantan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up the challenge of legally defining religion in contemporary India by investigating the intellectual history of colonial law.

Author : Geetanjali Srikantan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901158
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identifying and Regulating Religion in India written by Geetanjali Srikantan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a governable phenomenon. This book investigates the identification and regulation of religion through an intellectual history of law's creation of religion from the colonial to the post-colonial. Moving beyond conventional explanations on the failure of secularism and the secular state, it argues that the impasse in the legal regulation of religion lies in the methodologies and frameworks used by British colonial administrators in identifying and governing religion. Drawing on insights from post-colonial theory and religious studies, it demonstrates the role of secular legal reasoning in the background of Western intellectual history and Christian theology through an illustration of the place of worship. It is a contribution to South Asian legal history and sociolegal studies analysing court archives, colonial narratives and legislative documents.

Author : V. K. Sinha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secularism in India written by V. K. Sinha and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mathew John
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100931775X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India's Communal Constitution written by Mathew John and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how the Indian Constitution identifies the Indian people in colonial and communal terms.

Author : Ronojoy Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legalizing Religion written by Ronojoy Sen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Haim Malka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442281227
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith in Balance written by Haim Malka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important and timely study, Faith in the Balance: Regulating Religious Affairs in Africa, provides unique insights into how five governments on the African continent do just that: manage the politics of religion and the role of religion in politics.

Author : Jaclyn L. Neo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416179
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating Religion in Asia written by Jaclyn L. Neo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia, including how religion responds to such regulations. It looks at underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and the challenges emerging from such regulation.

Author : Laura Dudley Jenkins
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812250923
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India written by Laura Dudley Jenkins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam and the remaining 6 percent adheres to other religions. The right to "freely profess, practice, and propagate religion" in India's constitution is one of the most comprehensive articulations of the right to religious freedom. Yet from the late colonial era to the present, mass conversions to minority religions have inflamed majority-minority relations in India and complicated the exercise of this right. In Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India, Laura Dudley Jenkins examines three mass conversion movements in India: among Christians in the 1930s, Dalit Buddhists in the 1950s, and Mizo Jews in the 2000s. Critics of these movements claimed mass converts were victims of overzealous proselytizers promising material benefits, but defenders insisted the converts were individuals choosing to convert for spiritual reasons. Jenkins traces the origins of these opposing arguments to the 1930s and 1940s, when emerging human rights frameworks and early social scientific studies of religion posited an ideal convert: an individual making a purely spiritual choice. However, she observes that India's mass conversions did not adhere to this model and therefore sparked scrutiny of mass converts' individual agency and spiritual sincerity. Jenkins demonstrates that the preoccupation with converts' agency and sincerity has resulted in significant challenges to religious freedom. One is the proliferation of legislation limiting induced conversions. Another is the restriction of affirmative action rights of low caste people who choose to practice Islam or Christianity. Last, incendiary rumors are intentionally spread of women being converted to Islam via seduction. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India illuminates the ways in which these tactics immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today.

Author : Rishad Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009253700
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hajj across Empires written by Rishad Choudhury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original new history of Muslim political culture across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857. Examining South Asian connections with the Middle East, Rishad Choudhury draws on research in multilingual sources and archives to reveal the imperial entanglements of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.

Author : Julius Lipner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415051827
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindus written by Julius Lipner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism has been a major religious faith for well over 3000 years, and Hindus today account for over 600 million people. Lipner's book is a highly readable study of its evolution, its multidimensional nature, and influence.