Religion, Language, and Power (Routledge Studies in Religion)

ISBN 10: 0415542049 / ISBN 13: 9780415542043

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religion, Language, and Power (Routledge Studies in Religion)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415542049
• ISBN 13: 9780415542043
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Using an approach that is both comparative and historical, and relying upon case studies ranging from China and Iran to India, Britain, America and Kurdistan, the authors of this volume treat religions as discourses that are the products of a particular moment in history.

About the Author

Nile Green is Associate Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has published over 35 articles in international journals, as well as Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century (Routledge, 2006) and Islam and the Army in Colonial India (Cambridge, 2008).

Mary Searle-Chatterjee has published articles in edited collections including ‘World Religions’ and ‘Ethnic Groups’: Do these Paradigms Lend themselves to the Cause of Hindu Nationalism?" , as well as chapters in edited collections. Her books include Contextualising Caste, co-edited with Ursula Sharma (Blackwell, 1991; reprinted Rawat, 2003) and Reversible Sex Roles : The Special Case of Benares Sweepers (Pergamon, 1981).