Madan, T.N.

Images of the world: essays on religion, secularism, and culture/ T.N. Madan - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 398 p. ; 22 cm. - (Oxford collected essays) .

1. Religion in the modern world --
2. Freedom of religion --
3. Secularism in its place --
4. Secularism in India : predicaments and prospects --
5. Secularism revisited : doctrine of destiny or political ideology? --
6. The dialectic of religion and ethnicity in Bangladesh, Punjab, and Kashmir --
7. Kashmir, Kashmiris, Kashmiriyat --
8. India's religious traditions : some conceptual categories --
9. The householder tradition in Hindu society --
Annex : the concept of 'world order' in classical Hindu thought --
10. Dying with dignity --
11. The sociology of Hinduism : reading backwards from Srinivas to Weber --
12. Holism and individualism : Louis Dumont on India and the West --
Annex : Toynbee, Kroeber, Weber --
13. The private and the public : considerations of cultural context.

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Religion and politics
Religion and sociology
Secularism
Religion and culture

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