Religion & Sociology - India Religion - Civilization Religion & Politics - Secularism

Table of contents
Introduction -Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Aloka Parasher Sen
Part I Modernity, Religion, and Secularism
Chapter One: Society, Religion, and Modernity in Postcolonial India - T.K. Oommen
Chapter Two: Possession, Alterity, Modernity - Aditya Malik
Part II Modernity, Religion, and the Communities
Chapter Three: The Dravidian Idea in Missionary Accounts of South Indian Religion - Will Sweetman
Chapter Four: Locating the Self, Community, and the Nation: Writing the History of the Srivai??avas of South India- Ranjeeta Dutta
Chapter Five: Sedentarization and the Changing Contours of Religious Identities: The Case of the Pastoral Van Gujjars of the Himalayas - Alok Kumar Pandey and R. Siva Prasad
Chapter Six: Religion, Erotic Sensibilities, and Marginality - Pushpesh Kumar
Part III Secularism, Religion, and Politics
Chapter Seven: Rethinking the 'Religious-Secular' Binary in Global Politics: M.A. Jinnah and Muslim Nationalism in South Asia - Aparna Devare
Chapter Eight: Modernity, Citizenship, and Hindu Nationalism: Hindu Mahasabha and Its 'Reorientation' Debate, 1947-52 - Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Chapter Nine: Bipolar Coalition System in Kerala: Carriers and Gatekeepers of Communal Forces in Politics - B.L. Biju
Chapter Ten: The Ritual of Power and Power of the Ritual: An Interface between Religion and Politics - N. Sudhakar Rao and M. Ravikumar
Part IV Religious Practices of the Diaspora
Chapter Eleven: Cultural Reproduction and the Reconstruction of Identities in the Indian Diaspora - Aparna Rayaprol
Chapter Twelve: Durability and Change: Anglo-Indian Religious Practice in India and the Diaspora - Brent Howitt Otto and Robin Andrews
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index