TY - BOOK AU - Madan, T.N. TI - Images of the world: essays on religion, secularism, and culture SN - 9780195681130 U1 - 327.73 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Religion and politics KW - Religion and sociology KW - Secularism KW - Religion and culture N1 - 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 ER -