"In a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillars of the Russian state, how did the tsarist bureaucracy govern an expansive realm inhabited by the peoples of many nations and ethnicities professing various faiths? Did the nature of tsar…
Biographical note: Friedrich Vollhardt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Biographical note: Friedrich Vollhardt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München. In diesem Band werden die intellektuellen Voraussetzungen der soziokulturellen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen unt…
This volume elucidates the socio-cultural and political frameworks that shaped the genesis and dissemination of dissident ideas in the world of scholarship during the Early Modern period. It presents a broad range of interdisciplinary research perspectives on religious pluraliza…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar; 2. Languages of secularity Sudipta Kaviraj; 3. Secularization of politics: Muslim nationalism and sectarian conflict in South Asia Sadia Saeed; 4. Temple building in secularizing Nepal: materiali…
This book examines race, religion, and politics in the United States, illuminating their intersections and what they reveal about power and privilege. Drawing on both historic and recent examples, Stephanie Mitchem introduces readers to the ways race has been constructed in the …
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the Party-State enters the mosque; 1. History, the Chinese state, and Islamic law; 2. Linxia at the crossroads; 3. Ritual lawfare; 4. Learning the law; 5. Wedding laws; 6. Moral economies; 7. Procedural justice; Conclusion: law, min…
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the…
