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All Religions Merge in Tranquebar - Religious Coexistence and Social Cohesion in South India (Hardcover)
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All Religions Merge in Tranquebar - Religious Coexistence and Social Cohesion in South India (Hardcover)
Series: NIAS Studies in Contemporary Asian History, 8
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With globalization helping those who assert incompatible
differences between their respective faiths, clashes of faith are
increasingly common in different parts of the world. As a result,
the study of religious conflict is also increasing. This book
reverses that perspective by addressing a case of peaceful
religious coexistence and social cohesion, namely in the South
Indian village of Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) in Tamil Nadu. The
birthplace of the Lutheran mission to India in 1706, this former
Danish colonial settlement is now a famous heritage site. Although
badly hit by the 2004 tsunami and today numerically dominated by
members of a Hindu fishermen's caste, so far the town has managed
to steer clear of the kind of religious conflicts too often found
in a number of states in present-day India, including Tamil Nadu.
This in-depth study, based on post-tsunami field studies in 2006
and 2007, examines the ways in which Hindus, Muslims and different
Christian denominations interact in their day-to-day lives.
Further, it demonstrates that the role played by religion - as far
as social cohesion is concerned - is invariably tied up with
several other factors (social stratification, economic development,
educational institutions and such social communities as caste
councils, etc.) and may serve as a basis for unity as well as
division.
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