Faith and social movements :

Chakrabarti, Anindita (Of IIT Kanpur),

Faith and social movements : religious reform in contemporary India / Anindita Chakrabarti. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2018 - xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Svadhyaya ethics and the spirit of voluntarism -- Theologies of self-reform: what transforms the cross? -- Praxis of an emergent congregation: metaphysics reform and rebirth -- The structure of Lokasam.graha: volunteers, networks and training -- Succession, routinization of charisma and judicial religion -- The Tablighi Jamaat's call for self-reform -- Pedagogy of Tablighi reform: mission and the messenger -- 'Unintended consequences' of piety and discourses of Islamic reform -- Religion, movements, and secularity.

"Discusses the relevance of the reigning paradigms of Sanskritization and Islamization in the study of religious movements"--

9781107166622 (hardback : alk. paper)

2017022984


Hindu renewal--India.
Islamic renewal--India.

BL1153.5 / .C53 2018

206/.50954