The god market : how globalization is making India more Hindu / / by Meera Nanda
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| Autore: |
Nanda Meera
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| Titolo: |
The god market : how globalization is making India more Hindu / / by Meera Nanda
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-58367-310-5 |
| 1-58367-309-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810765503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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