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Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora (Hardcover, New)
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Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora (Hardcover, New)
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Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation,
development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities.
Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple
locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the
social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for
the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in
the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural
policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the
proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development
of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender
dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women's roles
in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way
separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse
patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the
dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora
becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive
collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published
as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.
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