Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir

Herausgeber: Chowdhari Tremblay, Reeta; Bhatia, Mohita

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the shifting, non-linear relationship between religion, nationalism, and politics in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It will be of interest to researchers of religion and politics, democratisation and democracy, secularism, sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138307643
• ISBN-10: 1138307645
• Artikelnr.: 69948479

Autorenporträt

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay is Professor of Comparative Politics and former Provost/Vice-President Academic at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her research interests include identity-based politics, secessionist movements (Kashmir) in South Asia and the politics of subaltern resistance and accommodation in post-colonial societies. Her recent publications include Kashmir Elections: A Precursor to 'No More Two Flags, Two Constitutions' (2020); Contested Governance, Competing Nationalisms, and Disenchanted Publics: Kashmir beyond Intractability? (2018) and Modi's Foreign Policy (2017). Mohita Bhatia is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for South Asia, Stanford University, California, USA. She was formerly Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Her research interests include the ethnography of ethno-national conflicts, migration, refugees and border making. She is the author of Retelling Conflict in Jammu and Kashmir: Marginal Hindu Communities and Politics in Jammu (2020). She has published in journals such as Asian Survey and Economic and Political Weekly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Setting the Context: Religion, Secularism and Secularization -
Diversities in Jammu and Kashmir 2. Moving Beyond Secular-Religious
Binaries: A Framework for understanding the interaction between Religion
and Politics 3. Secularization, Religion and Identity: Resistance in
Kashmir Valley 4. Secularization and Desecularization in Jammu:
Interrogating the canonical approaches 5. The Dynamics of Kashmir Identity
and its Contemporary Challenges 6. The Sacred and the Secular: Religion and
Politics in Jammu and Kashmir 7. Religion matters: Religion and Politics in
Kashmir 8. Everyday Communalism and Shifting Food Practices in Jammu and
Kashmir 9. Language, Religion and Identity Politics in Kashmir 10. 'For the
Conversion of Kashmir': The massacre at St. Joseph's mission hospital in
Baramulla 11. Dispersed Resistance: When Art is the Weapon