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Author Chakrabarti, Anindita.

Title Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Contents Svadhyaya ethics and the spirit of voluntarism -- Theologies of self-reform: what transforms the cross? -- Praxis of an emergent congregation: metaphysics reform and rebirth -- The structure of Lokasam.graha: volunteers, networks and training -- Succession, routinization of charisma and judicial religion -- The Tablighi Jamaat's call for self-reform -- Pedagogy of Tablighi reform: mission and the messenger -- 'Unintended consequences' of piety and discourses of Islamic reform -- Religion, movements, and secularity
Summary This book analyses a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - Svadhyaya and Tablighi Jamaat - grounded in ethnographic research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hindu renewal -- India
Islamic renewal -- India
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Hindu renewal
Islamic renewal
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1316996395
9781316996393
9781316711200
131671120X