Speaking truth to power: religion, caste and the subaltern question in India

This book focuses on the role of religion and its role in the construction and deconstruction of caste and power in India. INDICE: Introduction;; 1.: The Bhakti Radicals and Untouchability by Gail Omvedt;; 2.: Humanism, Religion, and the Nation: Sant Namdev as a M?navat?v?din by Christian Lee Novetzke;; 3.: Propagating the Gospel of Animal Kindness: Sacred Cows, Christians, and American Animal Welfare Activism with Referenceto India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Janet M. Davis;; 4.: Blindness and Sight: Moral Vision in Rajasthani Narratives by Ann Grodzins Gold;; 5.:The Upwardly Mobile Monkey-God: Village and Urban M?rut?s in Maharashtra by Jeffrey M. Brackett;; 6.: Negotiating Hierarchy and Identity: Cultural Performances on the Meaning of the Demon King Bali in Rural Maharashtra by Michael Youngblood;; 7.': How Can a Wife Screech and Wail?' Respectability and Bengali Women Singers' Lives by Donna M. Wulff;; 8.: Other Voices, Other Rooms: The Viewfrom the Zenana by Gail Minault;; 9.: Dalit Transformation, Narrative, and Verbal Art in the Tamil Novels of Bama by Paula Richman;; 10.: Women's Empowerment through Religious Conversion: Voices of Buddhists in Nagpur, India by LauraDudley Jenkins;; 11.: The Buddha and the Barbers: Status, Discipline, and Dissension in early Buddhism by Guy Welbon;; 12.: Art and Identity: The Rise of aNew Buddhist Imagery by Gary Michael Tartakov;; 13.: Understanding Multiple Images of B. R. Ambedkar by Gopal Guru;; 14.: Contemplating the Divine by Syed Akbar Hyder; Appendix; Contributors.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806349-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 254
• Fecha Publicación: 08/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés