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_bMAD/I
100 _aMadan, T.N.
245 0 _aImages of the world: essays on religion, secularism, and culture/
_cT.N. Madan
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2006.
300 _axii, 398 p. ;
_c22 cm.
440 _a(Oxford collected essays)
505 _a1. 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.
650 _aReligion and politics
650 _aReligion and sociology
650 _aSecularism
650 _aReligion and culture
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