Studies in Religion and the Everyday by Ibrahim, Farhana

Studies in Religion and the Everyday (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198902782)

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Studies in Religion and the Everyday by Ibrahim, Farhana

Studies in Religion and the Everyday

$140.00
Studies in Religion and the Everyday by Ibrahim, Farhana

Studies in Religion and the Everyday

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays addressing the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyday life in India. Events and processes in contemporary India--especially post the 1990s--have contributed to distinct modes of articulating religious practices. This volume is an attempt to historicize--and problematize--the categorization of religion as a universally held and analytically distinct feature of human life and seeks to understand the conditions--historical, political, discursive--and processes of authorization under which a particular set of practices, values, and dispositions constitutes the 'religious' at a specific point in time. By bringing together studies that draw from diverse methodological and epistemological approaches, the book will serve as a useful introduction to religion in India for the general reader and as an indispensable resource for students and researchers. The volume presents fresh perspectives on existing fields of study such as the city, capital, minorities, secularization, and the state--no longer seen as distinct from religion but actively co-produced with religion in the context of the theoretical rubric of the everyday--thereby marking a departure from approaching the question of religion solely through the lens of identity and conflict.

Author: Farhana Ibrahim
ISBN-10: 0198902786
ISBN-13: 9780198902782
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2024
Pages: 394
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d
By Farhana Ibrahim
By Farhana Ibrahim
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Farhana Ibrahim is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. A social anthropologist, her research interests include the study of borders, policing, migration, and ethnographic perspectives on the state. With a PhD from Cornell University, her ethnographic research, spanning almost two decades, centres on the western Indian region of Kutch. Her first book, Settlers, Saints, and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India (Routledge, 2009) focuses on Muslim pastoral communities in Gujarat along the Kutch-Sindh border. Her second book, From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border (Cornell University Press, 2021) is an ethnography of policing, civil-military relations, kinship, and surveillance on a South Asian borderland. She has also co-edited South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect (with Tanuja Kothiyal; Cambridge University Press, 2021).

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