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Faith and Social Movements
Bok av Anindita Chakrabarti
Rhetoric of Hindu India : Language and Urban Nationalism
Bok av Manisha Basu
Subalternity and Religion : The prehistory of dalit empowerment in south...
Bok av Milind Wakankar
Indian Muslims and Citizenship : Spaces for Jihad in Everyday Life
Bok av Julten Abdelhalim
Sports and The Global South : Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka
Bok av S. Janaka. Biyanwila
Dancing the Self
Bok av William S. Sax
The final word : the Caitanya caritāmr̥ta and the grammar of religious...
Bok av Tony K. Stewart
Rituals of Ethnicity : Thangmi identities between nepal and india
Bok av Sara Shneiderman

Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal (OIP)

Bok av David N Gellner
This volume brings together eleven case studies by an international team of anthropologists and ethno-Indologists of Nepal on diverse topics such as secularism, individualism, shamanism, animal sacrifice, the role of state functionaries in festivals, clashes and synergies between Maoism and Buddhism, and conversion to Christianity.