Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367561505 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 222 str.

Istvan Keul

Opis

This book explores religion in various spatial constellations in South Asian cities, including religious centres such as Varanasi, Madurai and Nanded, and cities not readily associated with religion, such as Mumbai and Delhi.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Spaces of religion in urban South Asia  2. Defining the postcolonial sacred: contested places of worship and urban planning in Delhi after Partition, 1947-1951  3. Inclusivism and its contingencies: following temple-goers in Kanpur  4. Conversionary Christian place-making in nineteenth-century Madurai  5. Sikh pilgrimage sites in the city of Nanded in Maharashtra  6. The production of Muslim space: mohalla life and Milad celebrations in Lahore  7. The boundary within: demolitions, dream projects and the negotiation of Hinduness in Banaras  8. Mantras of the metropole: Chetan Bhagat’s millennial Hinduism  9. Kali and the Queen: religion and the production of Calcutta’s pasts and presents  10. Timelines and lifelines: landscape practices and religious refabulations from South Asia  11. Land-grabbing deities: the politics of public space in a multi-religious neighbourhood  12. Making the "Smart Heritage City:" banal Hinduism, beautification and belonging in "new India"  13. Hindutva 2.0 as advertised monotheism  14. Purpose built: Islamabad, the Cold War, and non-Muslim Minorities in Pakistan  15. "We stand, but we do not pray:" religious plurality in a Mumbai chawl