...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...
india
The Modern Spirit of Asia
Looking back while hurtling forward
by Richard Madsen...of the languages and cultures of India and China (as well as extensive knowledge of European languages). Beset by pressures for specialization and for rapid and steady “productivity,” younger scholars...
The Modern Spirit of Asia
Modern spirits
by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm...have China and India interacting, nor are the details of their imperial encounters worked out. Because The Modern Spirit retreads the contours of pre-existing Euro-American scholarship, it always locates India...
The politics of religious freedom
Religious freedom as crisis claims
by Nandini Chatterjee...the Indian state. Charmingly, they said it was because India was not America—in India there was no rigid and complete wall of separation between the Church and State. All this...
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...
Crossing and conversion 
by
Peter van der Veer
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”...
here & there
Christian persecution in India
by Laura DuaneThe 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...
Book introductions
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
by Iza Hussin...past do they refer, and to which vision of the future? Beginning with the British colonization of India in the 1760s, tracing the development of the category of Islamic law...