This book constructs an anthropological history of a subaltern
religious formation, Mahima Dharma of Orissa, a large province in
eastern India. Tracking the contingent making of a critical community
over a hundred and forty year period, Religion, Law and Power explores
the interplay of distinct expressions of time and history, innovative
reformulations of caste and Hinduism and distinct engagements with
state and nation. This serves to unravel the wider entanglements of
religion, history, law, modernity and power. Ishita Banerjee-Dube
provides a situated and critical analysis of the different
trajectories of Mahima Dharma, bringing to the fore a clutch of
empirical and theoretical issues. Understandings of the articulation
and institutionalization of a subaltern religious order are not marked
off from, but reveal the techniques and textures of, the modern state
and dominant Hinduism. Such moves foreground subaltern and ascetic
expressions and negotiations of modernity in institutional and
everyday arenas, and further question widespread propositions of a
singular Hinduism, especially in India today. ‘Religion, Law and
Power’ should be of interest to historians, anthropologists and
religious studies scholars as well as general readers interested in
religion, politics, community and state. It will be of particular
interest to students of South Asia concerned with Hinduism and
religious sects, history and law, and power and resistance.
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ISBN
9781843313472
Publisert
2017
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Anthem Press (NBN)
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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