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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: spaces of religion in urban South Asia -- 2 Defining the postcolonial sacred: contested places of worship and urban planning in Delhi after Partition, 1947-1951 -- 3 Inclusivism and its contingencies: following temple-goers in Kanpur -- 4 Conversionary Christian place-making in 19th-century Madurai -- 5 Sikh pilgrimage sites in the city of Nanded in Maharashtra -- 6 The production of Muslim space: Mohalla life and Milad celebrations in Lahore -- 7 The boundary within: demolitions, dream projects and the negotiation of Hinduness in Banaras -- 8 Mantras of the metropole: Chetan Bhagat's millennial Hinduism -- 9 Kālī and the queen: religion and the production of Calcutta's pasts and presents -- 10 Timelines and lifelines: landscape practices and religious refabulations from South Asia -- 11 Land-grabbing deities: the politics of public space in a multireligious neighbourhood -- 12 Making the "smart heritage city": banal Hinduism, beautification and belonging in "New India" -- 13 Hindutva 2.0 as information ecology -- 14 Purpose built: Islamabad, the Cold War, and non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan -- 15 "We stand, but we do not pray": religious plurality in a Mumbai chawl -- Index.

This book offers a fresh approach to the study of religion in modern South Asia. It uses a series of case studies to explore the development of religious ideas and practices, giving students an understanding of the social, political and historical context

Whether in India, Pakistan, or Myanmar, governments have failed to protect minorities, and too often politicians have pandered to agitators stirring up sectarian hatred.

Das Thema der DGS-Sektionssitzung der Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie "Naturalisierung des Städtischen" zielt auf eine Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Deutungen städtischer Visionen, Konflikte, Krisen und Katastrophen, insofern diese bestimmte Naturalisierungsstrategien implizieren. Die Thematik wird dabei unter drei Perspektiven erschlossen: (1) die Verländlichung der Stadt durch Reagrarisierung, (2) die soziale Konstruktion von Naturereignissen als Katastrophe und (3) die Körperbasierung des Städtischen. (ICI2)

"Drivers of Religious Extremism in South Asia" published on by Oxford University Press.

This Element explores religious nationalism in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism and how it manifests in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. At the core, nationalists contend that the continuation of their group is threatened by some other group. Much of these fears are rooted in the colonial experience and have been exacerbated in the modern era.

Whether in India, Pakistan, or Myanmar, governments have failed to protect minorities, and too often politicians have pandered to agitators stirring up sectarian hatred.