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

• Autore: Nanda Meera
• 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 -- [e-mail] : 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