1st Edition
Liberation and Purity Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Postmodernity
By Chetan Bhatt
Copyright 1997
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1997. The rise of new religious movements has raised important questions about how race, ethnicity and the lives of black minority communities in the West are to be understood. In Liberation and purity, Chetan Bhatt critically examines the ideas and organization of new Hindu and Islamic movements and relates this to contemporary debates in philosophy, social theory and... Read more
1 Knowledge and its alternatives 2 Authoritarian religious movements and modern civil societies 3 The modernity of Islamic movements 4 The Rushdie affair and the deceptive critique of imperialism 5 Neotraditional Hinduism and the fabrication of purity 6 The land, the blood and the passion: the Hindu far-right 7 The new materials of ethnogenesis: communalism, the body and science
Biography
Chetan Bhatt is ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
