Ramesh Shinde PRESIDENT, Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, MAHARASHTRA REGION
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Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present; Narratives from Orissa $28.35 This book is an erudite and elegiac exploration of Hindu nationalism in India today. It offers a revealing account of Hindu militant mobilizations as an authoritarian movement manifest throughout culture, polity, and economy, religion and law, class and caste, on gender, body, land, and memory. Tracing the continuities between Hindutva and Hindu cultural dominance, this book maps the architectures… |
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Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India $31.99 India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist movement, which affirms the values and attitudes of atheism, humanism, or free-thinking. Quack shows the rationalists’ emphasis on maintaining links to atheism and materialism in ancient India and outlines their strong t… |
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Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives (Columbia/Hurst) $45.00 Islamophobia is a widely used but inconsistently defined term, hotly disputed and frequently disavowed. To its supporters, it captures a defining phenomenon of our times and is an important tool in highlighting the injustices Muslims face. Yet its effectiveness is weakened by the lack of an agreed meaning and relationship to racism and orientalism. To its detractors, Islamophobia is either a funda… |