Książka Saints, Goddesses and Kings Susan Bayly

Saints, Goddesses and Kings

Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900

Autor: Susan Bayly
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religion...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2004
strony
532
EAN
9780521891035
ISBN
0521891035
Enbook ID
02049375
Waga
703
Wymiary
140 x 216 x 30

Pełny opis

South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings uses a powerful combination of oral, literary and archival evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the religion and culture of the wider society. Susan Bayly shows how Christianity and Islam spread along the military and agricultural frontiers of southern India, and how certain beliefs and practices derived local force from an ambiguous relationship with the worship of existing Hindu goddesses. Saints, Goddesses and Kings thus illumines not only the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community, but wider processes of social and political change within the sub-continent and, indeed, colonial societies in general.

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