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Lines in water : religious boundaries in South Asia / edited by Eliza F. Kent and Tazim R. Kassam.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and globalizationPublication details: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780815652250
  • 0815652259
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lines in water.DDC classification:
  • 200.954 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2001.3 .L56 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Attractive boundaries -- Porous boundaries -- Firmly drawn boundaries -- Transcending boundaries.
Summary: This collection examines the projections and fantasies, conflict and cooperation, and borrowing and purifying that takes place around religious boundaries in South Asia and in the South Asian diaspora. These essays illustrate how people negotiate social divisions constructed on the basis of religious differences by describing, defining, maintaining, and blurring those religious boundaries in diverse ways.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Attractive boundaries -- Porous boundaries -- Firmly drawn boundaries -- Transcending boundaries.

This collection examines the projections and fantasies, conflict and cooperation, and borrowing and purifying that takes place around religious boundaries in South Asia and in the South Asian diaspora. These essays illustrate how people negotiate social divisions constructed on the basis of religious differences by describing, defining, maintaining, and blurring those religious boundaries in diverse ways.