Question of faith

By:

"Bharucha, Rustom"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi; Orient Longman; 1993Description: 94p.-ISBN:

863113923

Subject(s):

Faith

DDC classification:

121.7 BHA

Summary: the question of faiths;/em> examines the cultural resources underlying manifestations of ˜faith in the larger context of communalism and fundamentalism. Countering the economist and political interpretation of these phenomena, the author focuses instead on the possibilities of resilience contained in the life-sustaining aspects of religious experience and symbology. Exploring different ˜languages outside of the social sciences, this monograph travels through the enigmas of the kumbh Mela and the Ram Lila, the fiction of U. R. Anantha Murthy, the cultural writings of rammanohar Lohia, and Mahatma Gandhi politics of ˜faith to offer alternative modes of resisting the violence of our times through a deeper respect for cultural differences and the ambivalences of ˜faith.

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the question of faiths;/em> examines the cultural resources underlying manifestations of ˜faith in the larger context of communalism and fundamentalism. Countering the economist and political interpretation of these phenomena, the author focuses instead on the possibilities of resilience contained in the life-sustaining aspects of religious experience and symbology. Exploring different ˜languages outside of the social sciences, this monograph travels through the enigmas of the kumbh Mela and the Ram Lila, the fiction of U. R. Anantha Murthy, the cultural writings of rammanohar Lohia, and Mahatma Gandhi politics of ˜faith to offer alternative modes of resisting the violence of our times through a deeper respect for cultural differences and the ambivalences of ˜faith.

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