Drawing upon extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal, this book examines the terrains of Muslim identity and contemporary Islamic revivalist movements based in the Kathmandu valley.
Drawing upon extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal, this book examines the terrains of Muslim identity and contemporary Islamic revivalist moveme...
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
This book presents detailed case studies of lived religion in the Himalaya in this context of rapid change to offer intra-regional perspectives on the ways in which lived religions are being re-configured or re-imagined. Based on original fieldwork, this book documents...
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, ...
