Religion and the City in India (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chaudhuri, Supriya

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000429015
• Artikelnr.: 62167394

Autorenporträt

Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Making of a City: Religion and Society in the
Chandimangal of Early Modern Bengal 2. Temple, Urban Landscape and the
Production of Space: Srirangam in the Early Modern Tamil Region 3.
Hazrat-i-Dehli: Chishti Sufism and the Making of the Cosmopolitan Character
of the City of Delhi 4. The East India Company, English Protestants and the
wider Christian community in seventeenth century Surat, Bombay and Madras
5. Reconfiguring a Lost Trace: The Buddhist 'Revival Movement' in late 19th
century Calcutta and the Bengal Buddhist Association 6. From Faridpur to
Calcutta: the journey of the Matua faith 7. On Residues and Reuse: A
Festival and its Afterlife in an Indian Metropolis 8. The Leftover Untouch:
Sensing Caste in the Modern Urban Lives of a Devotional Instrument 9.
Mourning in the City: Imambaras as Sites of Urban Contestation in Kolkata
10. Performing Processions: Claiming the City 11. Memory and Space: Street
Shrines and Popular Devotion in Amritsar 12. Convivial Spaces: The Art of
Being Together and Separate in the Multi-Religious City of Ahmedabad 13.
Religion, Heritage and Identity: The Contested Heritage-scape of Varanasi