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Religion, Law and Power

By Ishita Banerjee-Dube

Religion, Law and Power Politics & History

Religion, Law and Power

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This book constructs an anthropological history of a subaltern religious formation, Mahima Dharma of Orissa, a large province in eastern India. Tracking the contingent making of a critical community over a hundred and forty year period, Religion, Law and Power explores the interplay of distinct expressions of time and history, innovative reformulations of caste and Hinduism and distinct engagements with state and nation. This serves to unravel the wider entanglements of religion, history, law, modernity and power. Ishita Banerjee-Dube provides a situated and critical analysis of the different trajectories of Mahima Dharma, bringing to the fore a clutch of empirical and theoretical issues. Understandings of the articulation and institutionalization of a subaltern religious order are not marked off from, but reveal the techniques and textures of, the modern state and dominant Hinduism. Such moves foreground subaltern and ascetic expressions and negotiations of modernity in institutional and everyday arenas, and further question widespread propositions of a singular Hinduism, especially in India today. ‘Religion, Law and Power’ should be of interest to historians, anthropologists and religious studies scholars as well as general readers interested in religion, politics, community and state. It will be of particular interest to students of South Asia concerned with Hinduism and religious sects, history and law, and power and resistance.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
243
Release Date:
2009-07-01
Publication Date:
2009-07-01
Publisher:
Anthem Press - IPSUK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843317834
ISBN13:
9781843317838
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
363 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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