Search Results for “india” – Page 4

Beyond reductive naturalism

by Yang Xiao

...Greece, China, and India. When he discusses tribal and archaic religions, Bellah focuses on the first two stages of cultural evolution, namely mimetic and mythic. He gives an account of...

December 9, 2011

A Universe of Terms

media

by Kajri Jain

...studies, anthropology, and area studies. Media were of interest to scholars of India’s religions before religion was of interest to those working on Indian media. Were it not for the...

February 14, 2020

Crossing and conversion

Crossing and conversion: Conclusion

by Peter van der Veer

...the world that are carried in language. Some linguistic anthropologists call this linguistic or semiotic ideology. Anthropologists of China and India have continuously been bothered by the question of “belief”...

July 11, 2018

here & there

Christian persecution in India

by Laura Duane

The New York Times reports on a growing trend of the persecution of Christians in India: India, the world’s most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is today haunted...

October 15, 2008

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

Comparison and classification in American religious history

Matthew Hedstrom·

January 9, 2018

...the still-young Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, sent expeditions into the West to collect American Indian artifacts for a planned display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. With the...

January 9, 2018

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto

by Craig Calhoun

...plea for pursuing necessary knowledge. Bhutto’s assassination comes just three months after the 60th anniversary of Pakistan’s birth. The partition of what had been British India in August 1947 was...

December 28, 2007

Deathless questions and other interviews

“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan

by Joseph Blankholm

...then a specialist on comparative religion but I had traveled frequently to India, and I was absolutely certain that you don’t need secularism in the classic social science sense of...

June 15, 2012

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu—An introduction

Michael Altman·

November 21, 2017

...“Hindoos” in schoolbooks taught students to distinguish between white/Protestant/democratic America and brown/heathen/despotic India. Across a variety of representations of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus these Indian Others functioned as stand-ins for...

November 21, 2017

Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics

On intellectual hospitality and the plenitude of time: A response to Bardawil

by Anand Vivek Taneja

...am acutely aware of this writing from India, where I am currently doing fieldwork, and where the colonial historical project of vilifying Muslim rule in India has now become the...

November 1, 2018

Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound

The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi

Anand Vivek Taneja·

May 29, 2019

...moved from speaking about the testimonies of the riot survivors to speaking of the persistence of Urdu in India. What they were saying was a kind of literature, it was...

May 29, 2019