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  • Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from India and Beyond

    Edited by Simi Malhotra, Sheikh Sana Assad, Farhana Tasnim, Somya Charan Pahadi, Sango Bidani ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited volume offers a comprehensive revaluation of Trauma and Memory Studies, foregrounding perspectives from India and beyond. It critically interrogates the prevailing Euro-centric paradigm within the field, advocating for the amplification and contextualization of voices originating from South Asian spatial and temporal contexts. Departing from conventional West/North-centric narratives, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    by Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Read more

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  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    by Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Read more

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  • The Spectral Wound

    Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

    by Nayanika Mookherjee ...
    Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • After World Religions

    Reconstructing Religious Studies

    by Christopher R Cotter, David G. Robertson ...
    Series series Religion in Culture
    The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Religion Today

    A Critical Thinking Approach to Religious Studies

    by Ross Aden ...
    Religion Today introduces students to key concepts in religious studies through a compelling problem-solving framework. Each chapter opens with a contemporary case study that helps students engage in current religious issues, explore possible solutions to difficult religious problems today, and learn key themes and concepts in religious studies.To enhance student learning, a free Student Study ... Read more

    $101.29 USD

  • Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India

    Narrating a Hindu past under the BJP

    by Lars Tore Flåten ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asian History
    When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the National Council of Educational Research and Training occurred, and in 2002 four new history textbooks were published.This book examines the new ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    by Mrinalini Chakravorty ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Amitav Ghosh

    by Anshuman A. Mondal ...
    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav Ghosh's work to be available outside India.Encompassing all of Ghosh's fictional and non-fictional writings to date, this book takes a thematic ... Read more

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  • New Age Spirituality

    Rethinking Religion

    by Steven J. Sutcliffe, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus ...
    New Age and holistic beliefs and practices - sometimes called the "new spirituality" - are widely distributed across modern global society. The fluid and popular nature of new age makes these movements a very challenging field to understand using traditional models of religious analysis. Rather than treating new age as an exotic specimen on the margins of 'proper' religion, "New Age Spirituality" ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

    Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary

    by Vijay Mishra ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ritual Matters

    Dynamic Dimensions in Practice

    Edited by Ute Husken, Christiane Brosius ...
    This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD