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Beyond religion in India and Pakistan : gender and caste, borders and boundaries
- Title
- Beyond religion in India and Pakistan : gender and caste, borders and boundaries / Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal.
- Author
- Kalra, Virinder S.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Purewal, Navtej Kaur
- Description
- xi, 222 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with materiality and subalternity, Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan opens new frames for understanding religion in South Asia. The book takes seriously the realm of material expression in popular religion as a very real and important indication of wider developments in political, social and religious identity and practice. As a result, the authors challenge the definition of religion more broadly. By exploring selected sites of piety including shrines and their associated ephemeral paraphernalia such as amulets, posters, and clay objects, the authors argue that popular religion of Punjab should neither be limited to a polarized picture between formal, institutional religion nor the ènchanted universe' of rituals, saints, shrines and village deities. Instead, the book presents a picture of r̀eligion' as a realm of movement, mobilization, and multiplicity. Through extensive ethnographic research, the authors explore the reality of the complex, fluid and dynamic relations that characterize the everyday material and religious lives on the ground. Ultimately, popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism, and theological frameworks.
- Series Statement
- Bloomsbury studies in religion, gender, and sexuality
- Subjects
- Caste > Pakistan
- Religion and sociology > Pakistan
- Pakistan
- Religion and sociology > India
- Caste > Pakistan > Punjab
- Religion and sociology > Pakistan > Punjab
- Pakistan > Punjab
- Punjab (India) > Religion
- Religion
- India > Religion
- Punjab (Pakistan) > Religion
- Pakistan > Religion
- Religion and sociology > India > Punjab
- India > Punjab
- Caste > India > Punjab
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-217) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Conceptual pilgrimage -- Bordering logics -- Sacred spaces and their limits -- Openness and closure -- Authority as religion-making and religion-breaking -- Devotion, hegemony and resistance at the margins.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4110
- ISBN
- 9781350041752
- 1350041750
- OCLC
- 1122864032
- Author
- Kalra, Virinder S., author.
- Title
- Beyond religion in India and Pakistan : gender and caste, borders and boundaries / Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Bloomsbury studies in religion, gender, and sexuality
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-217) and index.
- Added Author
- Purewal, Navtej Kaur, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4110