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Tag Archives: Religion

Religion


Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz
THE SCIENTIFIC MUSLIM: UNDERSTANDING ISLAM IN A NEW LIGHT
2021

The pandemic unveiled the system’s frailty, the dire need to develop a complementary long-term relationship between humans and the environment, and solutions for the crumbling system. Throughout the centuries, the debate of religion and science has been dominant in the discourse, providing a systematic and lawful way to sustain society.


Reviewed by: Azeemah Saleem

Geetanjali Srikantan
IDENTIFYING AND REGULATING RELIGION IN INDIA: LAW, HISTORY AND THE PLACE OF WORSHIP
2020

Litigating the past in the manner of the British created a new reality for India. It gave shape to religion and provided the bases for many a confrontation between religions and the religious-minded in this country of hundreds of personalized religions…


Reviewed by: M Rajivlochan

Kiran Nagarkar
THE ARSONIST: POET, WEAVER, SEER, BLASPHEMER––KABIR AS YOU’VE NEVER KNOWN HIM
2019

A way from the hypnotic overreach, exaggerated deeds and the over-ritualized texture in the earlier works on the Bhakti poet Kabir, Kiran Nagarkar’s The Arsonist foregrounds the persona of Sant Kabir through a recital of the mundane, ordinary and the normal run of things in his life.


Reviewed by: Gaurav Kalra

Chandan Sinha
KABIR: SELECTED SAKHIS—THE VISION OF WISDOM
2020

Kabir’s works stand thoroughly translated and analysed, yet the appeal of his ideas and writings continues to invite further translations and interpretations. Chandan Sinha’s book makes an important contribution to the existing knowledge on Kabir and places this possibly…


Reviewed by: Kashish Dua

Ziya Us Salam and M. Aslam Pervez
MADRASAS IN THE AGE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA
2019

Madrasas in the Age of Islamophobia by Zia Us Salam and M Aslam Parvaiz offers us an insight into the different facets of the world of madrasas in India. The preface spells out the central question/intent: what the reality of madrasas is today, a ubiquitous part of the landscape.


Reviewed by: Hem Borker

Ashutosh Shukla
TUMHARI JAY
2020

In these volatile times, when every word written is scrutinized for any hint of religious fundamentalism, it is difficult to assess a book like the present one. Its very title is bound to raise the hackles of those who read anything that has the word ‘Jai’ in it with the Pavlovian…


Reviewed by: Ira Pande

Hriday Narayan Dikshit
GYAN KA GYAN
2019

Gyan ka Gyan is a multi-nodal intervention in the academy of Vedic studies, or Vedic ontology to be precise.  The Vedas, Rigveda, Samveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda, in that order, are one of the most ancient sources of knowledge. From the four Vedas essentially .


Reviewed by: Aditi Maheshwari-Goyal

Usha Sanyal
SCHOLARS OF FAITH: SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM WOMEN AND THE EMBODIMENT OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE
2020

Usha Sanyal’s book on new institutions of Islamic learning for women is an important study on the relatively under-researched theme of South Asian Muslim women’s changing engagement with religious learning. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two institutions namely.


Reviewed by: Hem Borker

Chaturvedi Badrinath/Shashi Tharoor
DHARMA: HINDUISM AND RELIGIONS IN INDIA/THE HINDU WAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM
2019

Hinduism is the oldest living religion. Like all statements about Hindus, this needs further and then further qualification. The Indic tradition (shorthand for Hinduism), as expected, provides it: neti, neti. It is not a religion, nor an -ism.


Reviewed by: Vijay Tankha

B. R. Ambedkar
BEEF, BRAHMINS, AND BROKEN MEN: AN ANNOTATED CRITICAL SELECTION FROM THE UNTOUCHABLES
2020

price not statedThe view of Ambedkar as a radical philosopher who can help us understand and fight social and economic evils that Indian society is fraught with through the ages is gaining strength. The gains are a hard-won battle realized by Dalit-Bahujan groups.


Reviewed by: Krishnaswamy Dara

Pius Malekandathil, Lotika Varadarajan and Amar Farooqui
INDIA, THE PORTUGUESE AND MARITIME INTERACTIONS: 2 VOLUMES SCIENCE, ECONOMY AND URBANITY, VOL. I. RELIGION, LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS, VOL. II.
2019

The sixty papers published in these two volumes were all presented at the 14th International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History (ISIPH) held at Delhi in 2013. The first of these seminars was held at Goa in 1978 on the initiative of the late Father John Correia-Afonso.


Reviewed by: Kanakalatha Mukund

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
IN A PURE MUSLIM LAND: SHI’ISM BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST
2019

The South Asian subcontinent counts a significant Shi’i population, with Pakistan having the word’s second largest number of Shi’is. Yet it has so far received limited scholarly attention. This book, adapted from the author’s PhD dissertation.


Reviewed by: Julien Levesque

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
A GREAT ASSOCIATION: GLIMPSES INTO THE LIFE OF SWAMI BHOOMANANDA TIRTHA
2018

To label this book the biography of a spiritual figure would be a misnomer. On the contrary, it is an inner exploration into a universalism that transcends caste and creed and therefore religion in our conventional understanding of the term.


Reviewed by: Vijaya Ramaswamy

Manu V. Devadevan
GOD IS DEAD, THERE IS NO GOD: THE VACHANAS OF ALLAMA PRABHU
2019

The title is a misnomer. This tantalizing title of a book of translation that is saturated with divinity is an invitation to the enterprising reader to explore what lies within and what lies beyond the imagined entity called ‘God’. I would like to begin my review.


Reviewed by: Vijaya Ramaswamy

Julia Stephens
GOVERNING ISLAM: LAW, EMPIRE, AND SECULARISM IN SOUTH ASIA
2018

The current manouevres by the Indian government to define civic status in terms of religious identity have deep roots in the legal regimes introduced under British colonial rule.  If implementation of the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act will require applicants.


Reviewed by: David Lelyveld

M.J. Akbar
GANDHI’S HINDUISM: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST JINNAH’S ISLAM
2020

MJ Akbar needs no introduction. A famous journalist and politician (BJP), he is also a prolific writer. His latest offering, its unwieldy and somewhat misleading title notwithstanding, is about the last phase of India’s freedom struggle. The struggle for freedom was never between Hinduism and Islam.


Reviewed by: Kiran Doshi
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