Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan: Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries

Description: Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan by Navtej K. Purewal, Dr Virinder S. Kalra Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with borders and subalternity, Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan suggests new frameworks for understanding religious boundaries in South Asia. It looks at the ways in which social categories and structures constitute the bordering logics inherent within enactments of these boundaries, and positions hegemony and resistance through popular religion as an important indication of wider developments of political and social change. The book also shows how borders are continually being maintained through violence at national, community and individual levels.By exploring selected sites and expressions of piety including shrines, texts, practices and movements, Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal argue that the popular religion of Punjab should neither be limited to a polarised picture between formal, institutional religion, nor the enchanted universe of rituals, saints, shrines and village deities.Instead, the book presents a picture of religion as a realm of movement, mobilization, resistance and power in which gender and caste are connate of what comes to be known as religious. Through extensive ethnographic research, the authors explore the reality of the complex, dynamic and contested relations that characterize everyday material and religious lives on the ground. Ultimately, the book highlights how popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism and theological frameworks while simultaneously reflecting gender/caste society. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Virinder S. Kalra is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.Navtej K. Purewal is Professor of Political Sociology and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK. Table of Contents List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNote on Translation and Transliteration1. Introduction2. Conceptual Pilgrimage3. Bordering Logics4. Sacred Spaces and their Limits5. Openness and Closure6. Authority as Religion-making and Religion-breaking7. Devotion, Hegemony and Resistance at the MarginsAppendix 1GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex Review This ground-breaking book reveals what many of us have felt so deeply, for so long: that the historical lived complexity of "religion" in Punjab as a whole persists into the present, and that the naming of religious identity in conventional terms fails to encompass its facets. This book is essential reading for anyone who hopes to engage with the Punjab as a region and as an idea, and for anyone who seeks to engage with any of the religious traditions found among its peoples, in India and Pakistan. * Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada *This volume is a valuable contribution to understanding the dynamic relationship between popular and institutionalized religion in the Punjab region. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * Promotional A ground-breaking work on the complex interconnectedness of the religious traditions of Punjab, the first contemporary ethnographic exploration of religion across the Indian-Pakistan border. Review Quote "This volume is a valuable contribution to understanding the dynamic relationship between popular and institutionalized religion in the Punjab region. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE "This ground-breaking book reveals what many of us have felt so deeply, for so long: that the historical lived complexity of "religion" in Punjab as a whole persists into the present, and that the naming of religious identity in conventional terms fails to encompass its facets. This book is essential reading for anyone who hopes to engage with the Punjab as a region and as an idea, and for anyone who seeks to engage with any of the religious traditions found among its peoples, in India and Pakistan." -- Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada Promotional "Headline" A ground-breaking work on the complex interconnectedness of the religious traditions of Punjab, the first contemporary ethnographic exploration of religion across the Indian-Pakistan border. Feature The first volume to incorporate primary ethnographic fieldwork from India and Pakistan, transcending the India-Pakistan border to look at the issue of religion Details ISBN1350041750 Author Dr Virinder S. Kalra Pages 256 ISBN-10 1350041750 ISBN-13 9781350041752 Format Hardcover Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 5 bw illus Affiliation SOAS, University of London, UK Subtitle Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-12-12 DEWEY 306.60954 Short Title Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan Language English UK Release Date 2019-12-12 NZ Release Date 2019-12-12 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2019-12-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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