Liberation and Purity

Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Postmodernity

Gebonden Engels 1997 1e druk 9781857284232
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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 cultural studies. He considers the creation of new traditions and new ethnicities by these movements and explores how ideas of purity, pollution, the body, sexuality and gender are key themes in their ideas of emancipation. Bhatt explores the relationship between right-wing and progressive social movements in modern civil societies, and examines the influence on these movements of new globally-organized commu­nications technologies.

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ISBN13:9781857284232
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:328
Druk:1

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