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The god market [[electronic resource] ] : how globalization is making India more Hindu / / by Meera Nanda



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Autore: Nanda Meera Visualizza persona
Titolo: The god market [[electronic resource] ] : how globalization is making India more Hindu / / by Meera Nanda Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Monthly Review Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 306.60954
Soggetto topico: Globalization - Religious aspects - Hinduism
Globalization - India
Hinduism - India
Soggetto geografico: India Religion
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Reprint. Originally published as The God Market by Random House Publishers India Private Limited, 2009.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: 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).
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: The god market  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58367-310-5
1-58367-309-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462077103321
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