Indian diaspora socio-cultural and religious worlds
The papers presented in this volume represent a wide variety of Indian diasporic experiences. From indenture labour to the present day immigrations, Indian diasporic narrative offers opportunities to evaluate afresh notions of ethnicity, race, caste, gender and religious diversity.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
[2015]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
International studies in religion and society ; 24. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35624115*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Indian Diaspora:Socio-Cultural and Religious Worlds; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Graphs and Tables; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Socio-Religious and Cultural World of the Indian Diaspora; PART 1: Life in Indenture and Beyond; 2 Reconstructing History through Oral Tradition: A Case Study of Indian Indentured Migrants; 3 Songs of Abolition: Anti-Indentured Campaign in Early Twentieth Century India; 4 'The World becomes Stranger, the Pattern more Complicated': Culture, Identity and the Indo-Fijian Experience; 5 Hyphenated Hindus: The Development of a Indo-Caribbean Identity.
- 6 Constructing Hindu Worlds in Portugal: A Case Study from Lisbon PART 2: Life under Apartheid and Beyond; 7 Race, Representation and the Crisis of Democracy in South Africa; 8 Gujarati Muslim Diaspora and the Politics of Home in Apartheid South Africa; 9 Changing Caste Identities in the Indian Diaspora: A South African Perspective; 10 Interfaith Marriages and Marital Stability amongst the Indian Diaspora in the Durban Metropolitan Area, South Africa; 11 The South African Indian Muslim Community and Its Role in Responding to International Disasters.
- PART 3: Constructing Religious Institutions in the Diaspora 12 Changing Funerary Practices of the Tamil Hindus in Singapore; 13 The Materiality of Diasporic Identity: Hindu Temples in Trinidad and Malaysia; 14 Spaces of Religious, Social and Cultural Interaction of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims in the United Kingdom; 15 Representing Identity through Gurdwaras: Sikh Community in Nanaimo, British Columbia; 16 Indian Muslims and Mosque Construction in Australia; 17 In Retrospect: Some Theoretical Observations on the Socio-Cultural and Religious World of the Indian Diaspora; Index.
