Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India - Couverture souple

Menon, Kalyani Devaki

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501760610 ISBN 13 : 9781501760617

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India.

Places do not simply exist. They are made and remade by the acts of individuals and communities at particular historical moments. In India today, the place for Muslims is shrinking as the revanchist Hindu Right increasingly realizes its vision of a Hindu nation. Religion enables Muslims to re-envision India as a different kind of place, one to which they unquestionably belong. Analyzing the religious narratives, practices, and constructions of religious subjectivity of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi, Kalyani Devaki Menon reveals the ways in which Muslims variously contest the insular and singular understandings of nation that dominate the sociopolitical landscape of the country and make place for themselves. Menon shows how religion is concerned not just with the divine and transcendental but also with the anxieties and aspirations of people living amid violence, exclusion, and differential citizenship. Ultimately, Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India allows us to understand religious acts, narratives, and constructions of self and belonging as material forces, as forms of the political that can make room for individuals, communities, and alternative imaginings in a world besieged by increasingly xenophobic understandings of nation and place.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kalyani Devaki Menon is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. She is the author of Everyday Nationalism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501760610
• ISBN 13: 9781501760617
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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