Drawing on case studies of urban settings across the world, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis', and makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history,…
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The author examines the contradictory expectations regarding Baul constraints of feminine respectability that seemingly limit women's mobility and public performance. The lives of Baul women are explored and are based on ethnographic research.
In this multi-sited ethnographic study, Knight explores the everyday lives of women of the Baul tradition of musical mystics in India and Bangladesh. She demonstrates that Baul women construct a meaningful life as they navigate between conflicting expectations of Bauls to be car…
This volume introduces the early Christian ideas of history and history writing and shows their value for developing Christian communities of the patristic era. It examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history: apologetics, martyrdom accounts, sacred b…
Examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history--apologetics, martyrdom accounts, sacred biography, and the genre of church history proper--helping readers understand how Christian identity is rooted in the faithful work of preceding generations.
The contributors of this volume address the question of identity among Christ-believers from the viewpoint of prayer. Prayer brings into the discussion several dimensions that make up religious identity. It is attested rather early that prayer was theology performed, and thus in…
Focusing on the history of Hindu education at Banaras Hindu University, a major university of British India between 1915 to 1947, this book explores the complex inter-relationships between religion, education, identity formation, and resistance patterns. It also shows how the un…
Focusing on the history of Hindu education at Banaras Hindu University, a major university of British India between 1915 to 1947, this book explores the complex inter-relationships between religion, education, identity formation, and resistance patterns. It also shows how the un…