New PDF release: Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of

By Kelly Pemberton,Michael Nijhawan

How do textual content, functionality, and rhetoric at the same time mirror and problem notions of unique group and spiritual identities? This quantity examines proof of shared idioms of sanctity inside of a bigger framework of non secular nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. members to this quantity are really drawn to how replacement types of belonging and non secular imaginations in South Asia are articulated within the gentle of normative, authoritative, and specific claims upon the illustration of identities. development upon new and broad historiographical and ethnographical information, the ebook demanding situations uncomplicated categorizations of staff id and issues to the advanced old and modern relationships among diverse teams, firms, partially by means of investigating the discursive formations which are usually subsumed less than binary differences of dominant/subaltern, Hindu/Muslim or orthodox/heterodox. In this recognize, the booklet bargains a theoretical contribution past South Asia experiences via highlighting a necessity for a brand new interdisciplinary attempt in rethinking notions of identification, ethnicity, and religion.

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