Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - 1316996395
- 9781316996393
- 9781316711200
- 131671120X
- 306.6 23
- BL2015
- online - EBSCO
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This book analyses a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - Svadhyaya and Tablighi Jamaat - grounded in ethnographic research.
Svadhyaya ethics and the spirit of voluntarism -- Theologies of self-reform: what transforms the cross? -- Praxis of an emergent congregation: metaphysics reform and rebirth -- The structure of Lokasam.graha: volunteers, networks and training -- Succession, routinization of charisma and judicial religion -- The Tablighi Jamaat's call for self-reform -- Pedagogy of Tablighi reform: mission and the messenger -- 'Unintended consequences' of piety and discourses of Islamic reform -- Religion, movements, and secularity.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

