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Record Nr.

UNINA9910350281403321

Autore

Pandya Samta P

Titolo

Faith Movements and Social Transformation [[electronic resource] ] : Guru Charisma in Contemporary India / / by Samta P. Pandya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

981-13-2823-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages)

Disciplina

234.23

Soggetti

Religion and sociology

Religion and politics

Sociology of Religion

Religion and Society

Politics and Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Gurus, Sociality, Hegemony and Social Transformation -- 2. Guru Agency: Combining Charisma, Teachings and Proliferation -- 3. Faith Movements: Negotiating State, Market and Civil Society -- 4. Faith Networks: Interplaying Social Issues, Action and Service -- 5. Faith in Practice: Tangibility of Social Service -- 6. Faith Trappings: Shades of Hegemony and Hindu Nationalism -- 7. Transformational Actors: Private and Public Agendas -- 8. Actors in Social Transformation: Deliberating on a Mode.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation. It further situates these movements in the context of the global political economy where such movements cross national boundaries to locate believers among the Hindu diaspora and others. In contemporary neoliberal India, HIFMs have become important actors, and they realize themselves by making public assertions through service. The four pillars of the contemporary presence of such movements are: gurus, sociality, hegemony and social transformation. Gurus, who spearhead these movements, create a matrix of possible meanings in their public discourses which their followers pick up to create messages of personal



and social change. Sociality is a core strategy of proliferation across such movements and implies social service, which is qualified by memories of the guru and what they are believed to embody. Hegemony is reflected in the fact that social service in such movements often ominously imbibes right-wing or far-right Hinduism. They propose a model of Hindu-inspired social transformation, involving faith building into and transforming the civil society. The book discusses in a nuanced way several Hindu-inspired faith movements of various hues which have made national and international impact. This topical book is of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, social work, and social psychology, with a special interest in the study of religious movements. .

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300576203321

Autore

Zappavigna Michele

Titolo

Discourse and Diversionary Justice : An Analysis of Youth Justice Conferencing / / by Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319637631

3319637630

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 338 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

364.3609944 $2 23

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Semiotics

Juvenile delinquents

Linguistics - Methodology

Law and the social sciences

Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Socio-Legal Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Approaching restorative justice.- Chapter 2. Conference design -- genre and macro-genre.- Chapter 3. Conference interaction -- exchange structure.- Chapter 4. Expressing feeling -- appraisal systems.- Chapter 5. Negotiating feeling -- the role of body language.- Chapter 6. Performing identity -- a topological perspective.- Chapter 7. Ceremonial redress -- how conferencing in fact achieves it goals.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia. Exploring this form of diversionary justice from the perspectives of functional linguistics and performance studies, the authors combine close textual analysis with ethnographic research methodologies. They examine how participants use the discourse semantic resources available to them to achieve such outcomes as reparation for the victim, reintegration of the offender into the community, and reconciliation between the various parties. This uniquely-researched work is sure to be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. Michele Zappavigna is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her major research interest is the discourse of social media, and she has published widely on this topic in a range of books and journals. JR Martin isProfessor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focusing on English and Tagalog. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998, and awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003.