Religion in India (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology)

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Book

Authors

Madan ( T.N. )

ISBN 10

0195630920

ISBN 13

9780195630923

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Religion

Description

All the great religions of the world--Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism--are found within the geographic boundaries of India, each affecting people in some respect. Focusing on the sociological and anthropological aspects, this study attempts to elucidate the major approaches--evolutionary, structuralist, functionalist, cultural/analytical, phenomenological, and hermeneutic, while offering the reader a clear understanding of the religions' perspectives on time, space, knowledge, sacred persons, and reorientation of the sacred. - from Amzon

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