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Nanda Meera |
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Titolo |
The god market : how globalization is making India more Hindu / / by Meera Nanda |
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New York, : Monthly Review Press, 2011 |
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1-58367-310-5 |
1-58367-309-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Globalization - Religious aspects - Hinduism |
Globalization - India |
Hinduism - India |
India Religion |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Reprint. Originally published as The God Market by Random House Publishers India Private Limited, 2009. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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India and the global economy : a very brief introduction -- The rush hour of the gods : globalization and middle-class religiosity -- The state-temple-corporate complex and the banality of Hindu nationalism -- India@superpower.com : how we see ourselves -- Rethinking secularization (with India in mind). |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today's India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwining of Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growing capitalist class. It is this "State-Temple-Corporate Complex," she claims, that now wields decisive political and economic power, and provides ideological cover for the dismantling of the Nehru-era state-do |
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