Religious Studies: A Global View

of tribal and village community had their separate and merged, complicated and intricate intellectual trajectories in African vi ...

studies on religion come into much clearer focus. From then onwards, religious cults (Chatterjee 1993), religious symbolism and ...

Sinha (2003) are possibly among the few recent exceptions. Giri analyzes religious resurgence in contemporary United States, whi ...

P. V. Kane’s monumental work in five volumes, History of DharmaÊÇstra, forms the background for any discussion of classical Hind ...

In recent years, the Indic Studies Project, located at the Centre for Developing Societies in Delhi (CSDS), has been launched by ...

separatism, Partition, and the history of Hindu–Muslim communalism (Pandey 1983, 1990; Chandra 1984; Mushirul Hasan 1997, 2004). ...

or construction of Hinduism, including of Hindu deities and the idea of caste (e.g. Dalmia 1995, 1997; T. Basu et al. 1993; Kapu ...

ruptures the linear narrative of conversion that assumes a known or ‘familiar’ ending and looks critically at the complex relati ...

work was significant for two reasons: first, its emphasis on urban religion, and second, its view of religious tradition in a hi ...

been places which have produced some studies on religion. Dhaka University has a department of world religions, but in general s ...

the origins, historical development, and political strategies of the Jama’at-i- Islami of Pakistan. He looks at the tension betw ...

include sociologists Sudhindra Sharma (2002, 2003) and K. B. Bhattachan (2000), the historian Prayag Raj Sharma (1978, 1989, 199 ...

sociological and anthropological. We know by now that ‘religious studies’ as a category is a construction emanating from realiti ...

how could this be accessed? A primary methodological challenge was thus securing resources and indeed institutional locales wher ...

studies find a place in only two of the tertiary institutions. These four are: University of Cambodia, Assumption University and ...

located in Hua Mak with a new campus in Bang Na, started master’s degree courses in philosophy and religious studies in June 199 ...

fundamental human problems and possibilities. It is the introduction of the scientific study of religion into the system of high ...

differences between various religious traditions. It offers numerous courses focusing specifically on the role of religion in So ...

The concern with problematizing this category continues to engage Singapore-based social scientists, as seen in the work of Geof ...

and anthropological interest from researchers in Singapore (Nilavu Mohd. Ali 1985; Sinha 1993) and Malaysia (Lee 1989; Lee & ...