
Images of the World
Essays on Religion, Secularism, and Culture
Madan(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
410 pages
978-0-19-569834-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays engages with the persistence of religion in the modern world, the rise of processes of rationalization, secularization, and cultural change. It argues that the rise of religion as a faith and as a political ideology made the last century a short one. Expectations of the decline of religion were never fulfilled. In these circumstances freedom of religion and religious pluralism acquired great salience. Secularism has been viewed critically and some forms of it have turned out to be seriously flawed. The volume further argues that the relationship between fundamentalism and secularism is more complex than previously imagined and not merely one of antagonism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 132 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-569834-3 (9780195698343)
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Person
T.N. Madan is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi.
Author
Emeritus Professor of SociologyEmeritus Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Content
PREFACE; PART I RELIGION AND SECULARISM; PART II RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR IDENTITIES; PART III RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND VALUES; PART IV CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND CONCEPTUAL CATEGORIES; INDEX