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Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 1316996395
  • 9781316996393
  • 9781316711200
  • 131671120X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.6 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2015
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: This book analyses a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - Svadhyaya and Tablighi Jamaat - grounded in ethnographic research.

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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.