The God Market : How Globalization is Making India More Hindu /

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Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today's India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nanda, Meera
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religion.
Hinduism.
Globalization > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Globalization.
RELIGION > Hinduism > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Hindouisme > Inde.
Mondialisation > Inde.
Mondialisation > Aspect religieux > Hindouisme.
Hinduism > India.
Globalization > India.
India.
Inde > Religion.
India > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • India and the global economy : a very brief introduction
  • The rush hour of the gods : globalization and middle-class religiosity
  • The state-temple-corporate complex and the banality of Hindu nationalism
  • India@superpower.com : how we see ourselves
  • Rethinking secularization (with India in mind).

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