Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality. But how do religious groups organize themselves in response to these issues? This book systematically studies the relations…
A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social exclusion in India, This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis--vis their upper-caste Hindu peers and establishes how caste is a lived reality in everyday life in modern India. It…
"This book provides a multidisciplinary and multilayered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities of shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indo…
Studying six Islamic states in detail, Ayubi encompasses innovative material on sex and the family, and on the emerging alternative economic and social networks of Islamic banks, schools, and hospitals in those states.
"The fall of President Soeharto in May 1998 and the introduction of multi-party democracy by President BJ Habibie have unleashed religious parties (both Islamic and Christian) in Indonesian politics. This study shows that the Islamist agenda of the Islamist parties is overshadow…
The religious and political winds are changing. Religious Americans are reclaiming faith from those who would abuse it for narrow, partisan, and ideological purposes. And more and more secular Americans are discovering common ground with believers on the great issues of social j…
"Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes…
Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries, but sociocultural diversity increasingly renders this view obsolete. The 'state-nation' is a concept that seeks to accommodate distinct ethnic & cu…
