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