Religious Pluralism in the Diaspora
Biographical note
P. Pratap Kumar , Ph.D UC. Santa Barbara, USA, currently works as Full Professor of Hinduism and Comparative Religions at University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. His most recent publications include The Goddess Lakshmi in South Indian Vaishnavism. Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA USA, 1997 andHindus in South Africa: Their Traditions and Beliefs, Durban: University of Durban-Westville, 2000. He is currently working on: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in the Study of Hinduism; Historical issues in the study of the upanishadic genre of texts (A case study of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad).
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All those who are interested in the Diaspora and Migration Studies, Religious Pluralism and Religious Studies.
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The volume Religion, Public or Private? aims at contributing to the debate on the distinction between public and private spheres with regard to the role of religion in modern societies.
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In Religion, Migration, Settlement, Tuomas Martikainen provides an account of the impact of immigration on the field of religion in Finland since the 1990s.
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Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. It creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to explore the spatiality of religion in modern cities.
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The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, the book examines the circulation and consumption of Brazilian Christianities, African-based religion, and diverse expressions of ...
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This book analyses the variety of Pentecostal movements engaging politics in Africa, mission work in Asia, and issues of migration in Europe and North America.
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This book examines contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies from a theoretical perspective. Special attention is paid to those authors (e.g. Habermas, Taylor) who analyze new global constellations in terms of a shift from the secular to the postsecular.
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Religions of Modernity' challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that modernization inevitably erodes the sacred, and documents - in rich empirical detail - how modernity spawns its own religious meanings by relocating the sacred to the self and the domain of digital technology.
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This book develops an interdiscplinary as well as cross cultural and historical analyses of the relationship between medicine, religion, and the body.
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