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  • American Examples, Vol 3

    New Conversations about Religion

    de Michael J. Altman, Michael Baysa, Christopher M. Bishop, Jaimie D. Crumley0, Chelsea Ebin1, Lauren Horn Griffin2, Hinasahar Muneeruddin3, Alexander Rocklin4, Sean Sidky5, Joshua D. Urich6, Lucas F. W. Wilson7 ...
    American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three, is the third in a series of annual anthologies produced by the American Examples workshop hosted by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. In the latest volume from this innovative academic project, ten topically and methodologically diverse scholars vividly reimagine the meaning and applications of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad

    de Alexander Rocklin ...
    How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, “Hinduism” was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together—under the watchful eyes of the British rulers—to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Sri Lanka in the Modern Age

    A History

    de Nira Wickramasinghe ...
    Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the political, social and economic demands of other communities, parties, associations and groups, tracing their ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Karma Of Brown Folk

    de Vijay Prashad ...
    **Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback!**“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians “How does it feel to be a solution?” In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Slave in a Palanquin

    Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka

    de Nira Wickramasinghe, Professor of Modern South Asian Studies ...
    For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Caste, Conversion, A Colonial Conspiracy

    What Every Hindu and Christian Needs to Know About Caste

    de Pt Satish K. Sharma MBCS FRSA ...
    Every Hindu walks through life carrying a subliminal guilt that his or her ancestors were "caste discriminators" and every devout Christian walks tall and proud in the knowledge that his or her ancestors helped to free the crushed, downtrodden from the depraved Hindoo caste system, and being an accepted "truth" no-one questions it any more. What if they are both victims of the same deception, of ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Castes of Mind

    Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

    de Nicholas Dirks ...
    When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • India and the British Empire

    Edición de Douglas M. Peers, Nandini Gooptu ...
    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Callaloo Nation

    Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

    de Aisha Khan, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the ways identities are interpreted and evaluated. As Aisha Khan shows in this ethnography, they reveal the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Rebels, Wives, Saints

    Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times

    de Tanika Sarkar ...
    Tanika Sarkars writings on women, religion, and nationhood in the context of colonial Bengal have been pathbreaking. In this new book of connected essays, she gives a new direction to the same themes, this time by focusing on some of the key historical texts within which these identities were given shape. The colonial universe outlined in this book centres around woman as both defiled and deified ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Gandhi's Experiments with Truth

    Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi

    de Douglas Allen, Judith M. Brown, Richard A. Falk, Michael Nagler, Makarand Paranjape, Glenn Paige, Bhikhu Parekh, Anthony J. Parel, Lloyd I. Rudolph, Michael Sonnleitner, Ronald J. Terchek ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books-An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in South Africa, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)-a major pamphlet, Constructive Programme: Its Meaning ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD