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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daniela berti”
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  • Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia

    Edited by Daniela Berti, Anthony Good ...
    Series series Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
    This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in South Asia through the lens of court cases. It focuses on the parties involved in these cases: on their discourses, motivations, and contrasting points of view. Through an examination of judicial files, court decisions and newspaper articles, and interviews with protagonists, the book explores how the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Pit (English)

    by Daniela Berti ...
    One day the little chick Pit became huge, even bigger than the sun. Scientists start studying him and archaeologists even measure his footprints. Everything was tight on him, even his own home. A surreal and entertaining tale which reminds us that often not everything is as it seems. We need to look at things with new eyes and from different perspectives... and then maybe we might even discover ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva

    Local Mediations and Forms of Convergence

    Edited by Daniela Berti, Nicolas Jaoul, Pralay Kanungo ...
    The book reflects on the discreet influence of Hindutva in situations/places outside or at the margins of its organisational and mobilisational arena, where people denying any commitment to the Sangh Parivar, incidentally, show affinities and parallelisms with its discourse and practice. This study looks at Hindutva’s entrenchment not so much as an orchestration from above but more as an outcome ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Of Doubt and Proof

    Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment

    by Daniela Berti, Anthony Good ...
    Series series Juris Diversitas
    All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge’s professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question of doubt. By putting ritual and judicial settings into comparative perspective, in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    The little-known story of Gandhi's reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India's downtrodden.Democracy hasn't eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

    Edited by Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka

    Edited by Mahinda Deegalle ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book explores the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka. Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, Buddhist studies and Pali examine multiple dimensions of the problem. Buddhist responses to the crisis are discussed in detail, along with how Buddhism can help to create ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tibetan Democracy

    Governance, Leadership and Conflict in Exile

    by Trine Brox ...
    How do you govern 130,000 people from exile? Tibet - and the struggles of diaspora Tibetans - are elements of an ongoing and highly debated issue. The Dalai Lama's democratisation process during his time in India from 1959-2011, and the subsequent election of Lobsang Sangay as prime minister-in-exile, marked to the Tibetan people the move away from a seemingly feudal societal structure and ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Rethinking Social Exclusion in India

    Castes, Communities and the State

    Edited by Minoru Mio, Abhijit Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies
    In recent years exclusionary policies of the Indian state have raised questions concerning social harmony and economic progress. During the last few decades the emergence of identity politics has given new lease of life to exclusionary practices in the country. Castes, communities and ethnic groups have re-emerged in almost every sphere of social life.This book analyses different aspects of social ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Religion and Nationalism in India

    The Case of the Punjab

    by Harnik Deol ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This timely and significant study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian State in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the raiding of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The book ... Read more

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  • Hinduism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kim Knott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it in the twenty-first century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda as religious texts, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which he made the basis of his successful struggle against British rule in India. In this Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD