Fluid Boundaries And The Assertion Of Difference In Low-Caste Religious Identity,
2013
Chapman University
Fluid Boundaries And The Assertion Of Difference In Low-Caste Religious Identity, Nancy M. Martin
Religious Studies Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"The boundaries of religious traditions are being actively contested in India today, though in practice their internal and external structures are fl uid and open. Each religion takes a wide array of forms, refl ecting the diversity of the communities and adherents who fi nd relevance and meaning within it, and symbols and practices fl ow readily across what prove to be very permeable and overlapping boundaries between religious traditions. However, religion has been used by the powerful to assert and maintain dominance and in national and regional communal politics, at times fanning the fl ames of extreme violence. Fundamentalists …
Does The Divine Physician Have An Unfair Advantage? Healing And The Politics Of Conversion In Twentieth-Century India,
2013
Butler University
Does The Divine Physician Have An Unfair Advantage? Healing And The Politics Of Conversion In Twentieth-Century India, Chad Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
An examination of the issue of medical allurement in historical/contemporary Indian Christianity.
Review Of Ramanuja And Schleiermacher: Toward A Constructive Comparative Theology,
2012
Cleveland State University
Review Of Ramanuja And Schleiermacher: Toward A Constructive Comparative Theology, Sucharita Adluri Ms.
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Papers Of Paul Wagner Arc2001-006 - Finding Aid,
2012
Asbury Theological Seminary
Papers Of Paul Wagner Arc2001-006 - Finding Aid, Paul Wagner
Finding Aids
No abstract provided.
Papers Of Paul Wagner Arc1995-002 - Finding Aid,
2012
Asbury Theological Seminary
Papers Of Paul Wagner Arc1995-002 - Finding Aid, Paul Wagner
Finding Aids
No abstract provided.
Records Of The United Christian Ashrams, International Arc1996-010 - Finding Aid,
2012
Asbury Theological Seminary
Records Of The United Christian Ashrams, International Arc1996-010 - Finding Aid, United Christian Ashrams, International N.A.
Finding Aids
No abstract provided.
Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, And Perceived Threat: A Research Note On Anti- Christian Violence In India,
2011
Butler University
Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, And Perceived Threat: A Research Note On Anti- Christian Violence In India, Chad Bauman, Tamara Leech
Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works
A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests that whereas the data provide very little support for simple, demographic explanations of this violence, they do more robustly support theories emphasizing the relative status of ethnic and religious minorities (vis-à-vis majorities) and the perception, among Hindus, that Christians (and other minorities) represent a threat to their numerical, political and economic strength.
Bangladesh,
2011
Gettysburg College
Bangladesh, Megan Adamson Sijapati
Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Bangladesh (formally the People's Republic of Bangladesh) is a Muslim-majority parliamentary democracy located in South Asia. Originally called East Pakistan, it was created during the partition of India in 1947 as the eastern wing of the country of Pakistan. Its name was later changed to East Bengal and then to Bangladesh after its union with West Pakistan was broken following a bloody war of secession in 1971. [excerpt]
Bhutan,
2011
Gettysburg College
Bhutan, Megan Adamson Sijapati
Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Bhutan (formally the Kingdom of Bhutan) is a small, landlocked Buddhist constitutional monarchy in the eastern Himalayas, located between China's Tibetan autonomous region and India. Its terrain is largely mountainous, and its economy is based on agriculture and forestry. Bhutan's official national language is Dzongkha, and its multiethnic population, reported in the 2005 govrnment census to be approximately 681,000, is 75% Buddhist and 25% Hindu.
Nepal,
2011
Gettysburg College
Nepal, Megan Adamson Sijapati
Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Nepal is a democratic republic located along the southern region of the Himalayan range, bordering India to the south, west, and east and the Tibetan autonomous region of China to the north. Though a small country in geographic terms (approximately 54,362 square miles [1 mile = 1.6093 kilometers]), its population of approximately 29.5 million people is a complex and heterogeneous mix of both Indo-European and Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups and castes, each with distinct languages and religious and cultural traditions. [excerpt]
Review Of Neeti Nair's Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics And The Partition Of India,
2011
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Review Of Neeti Nair's Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics And The Partition Of India, Geoffrey Kain
Publications
“As Neeti Nair concludes chapter 5 of her extremely impressive study of the Partition of India, Changing Homelands, she argues against the pat inclusion of Partition on a ‘trans-national’ list of ‘genocidal conflicts’ …”
Mirabai Comes To America: The Translation And Transformation Of A Saint,
2010
Chapman University
Mirabai Comes To America: The Translation And Transformation Of A Saint, Nancy M. Martin
Religious Studies Faculty Articles and Research
The story of the sixteenth-century Hindu saint Mirabai is told and performed in a multitude of genres in India across the centuries, and her songs generate a tradition of continuing composition in her name. Her popularity readily moves across boundaries of language, caste, class, religion, and culture not only within India but also beyond, taking root in American culture more broadly in the latter decades of the 20th century, as Americans begin looking for figures for inspiration and canonisation within an emerging non-institutionalised global spirituality and women around the world mine the past to find their spiritual foremothers. Her popularity …
