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Religions in South Asia have tended to be studied in blocks, whether in the various monolithictraditions in which they are now regarded, thus Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, or indeed intemporal blocks: ancient, medieval, modern. This volume seeks to look at relationships both withinand between religions. It explores the diversity and the multiplicity within each tradition, but also thespecific forms of their co-existence with each other, whether in accord or in antagonism. Its secondmajor concern is to look for grounds shared in the process of modernizing. And finally, it also looks…mehr

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Religions in South Asia have tended to be studied in blocks, whether in the various monolithictraditions in which they are now regarded, thus Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, or indeed intemporal blocks: ancient, medieval, modern. This volume seeks to look at relationships both withinand between religions. It explores the diversity and the multiplicity within each tradition, but also thespecific forms of their co-existence with each other, whether in accord or in antagonism. Its secondmajor concern is to look for grounds shared in the process of modernizing. And finally, it also looks atthe changing social and political frames of reference shared by both religious and secularist strandsof thought. The 'religions' targeted include Hindu discourses, Dalits, Jains, Sikhs, Islamic traditionsincluding the various Sufi orders, and Indian Christians.
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Autorenporträt
Martin Fuchs holds the Professorship for Indian Religious History at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies), University of Erfurt (Germany), and is member of the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences 'Metamorphoses of the Political' (ICAS:MP) in Delhi (India). Trained in Anthropology and Sociology he previously taught at the Universities of Zuerich (Switzerland), Heidelberg and Paderbor (Germany), Free University Berlin, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), and University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand). His research interests include cultural and social theory, urban anthropology, social movements, Dalit studies and religious individualization; his regional focus is on India Vasudha Dalmia is Professor Emerita, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.