RT Book
T1 Routledge handbook of South Asian religions
A2 Jacobsen, Knut A. 1956-
LA English
PP London New York
PB Routledge
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1702006085
AB "The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Chapters by an international set of experts analyse formative developments, roots, changes and transformations, religious practices and ideas, identities, relations, territorialisation, and globalisation in historical and contemporary South Asia. The Handbook is divided into two parts which firstly analyse historical South Asian religions and their developments and secondly contemporary South Asia religions that are influenced by both religious pluralism and their close connection to nation states and their ideological power. Contributors argue that religion has been used as a tool for creating nations as well as majorities within those nations in South Asia, despite their enormous diversity, in particular religious diversity. The Handbook explores these diversities and tensions, historical developments and the present situation across religious traditions by utilising an array of approaches and from the point of view of various academic disciplines. Drawing together a remarkable collection of leading and emerging scholars, this handbook is an invaluable research tool and will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context and South Asian religions"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL1055
SN 9780367150778
SN 0367150778
K1 Electronic books
K1 Religion
K1 South Asia : Religion
K1 South Asia
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.4324/9780429054853