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Subject(s)

• Religion and sociology—India—Mumbai [Browse]
• Mumbai (India)—Religion [Browse]
• Mumbai (India)—Religious life and customs [Browse]

Editor

• Stausberg, Michael [Browse]

Writer of preface

• Stausberg, Michael [Browse]

Summary note

"Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for a habitual cosmopolitanism and a series of violent religion-related conflicts and clashes. While there is much academic scholarship on various aspects of urban history and realities, this volume is the first international academic publication focusing on religion(s) in Mumbai. An extended introductory essay provides a scenario of the religious history of the city from the earliest colonial periods to the present; it also discusses such topics as public celebration and landmark religious places. By taking a thematic approach, the contributions highlight the dynamics of religious life in the city. Chapters discuss spatial settings such as so-called slums (Dharavi) and ghettos (Mumbra), but also roadside shrines and taxis. Other chapters focus on class and civil society organizations. Contributions discuss the crossing of religious boundaries, e.g., in dealing with intermarriage and conversion, and challenges faced by religious groups as to how to reconcile the religious diversity of the city with their own desire for recognition. Lines of tension and conflict often run within, and not so much between, communities.The two final chapters of the volume address the reflection of religion in fiction set in Mumbai and in the work of the Bombay poet Arun Kolatkar"-- Provided by publisher, page 4 of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Religion in Bombay/Mumbai: A scenario / Michael Stausberg
• 2. Beyond Diversity: Precarious Belonging and Religious Conjunctions - Dalits in Dharavi / Martin Fuchs
• 3. Does Violence Beget the Ghetto? Evidence from Ethnography in Mumbra / Sumanya Anand Velamur
• 4. Encountering Religious Difference in the City: Some Reflections on the Participation of Ismaili Muslims in Islamic Revivalism / David J. Strohl
• 5. Twelver Shi'i Muslims' Right to the City: Public Performance, Media Practices, and Urban Atmospheres / Patrick Eisenlohr
• 6. Middle-Class Muslims: Forms and Engagement with Islam / Tanvi Patel-Banerjee
• 7. 'God is with the Patient People': Festival, Class and Interreligious Engagement
• Raminder Kaur and Faisal Syed Mohammed
• 8. Transgressive Spaces: Women's Organizations and Intentional Interventions in Politics of Inter-religious Marriage / Gopika Solanki
• 9. Strategic Roadside Shrines in High-risk Zones: Baba for Peace / Anna Charlotta Osterberg
• 10. Taxis as Public Micro-spaces of Religion: Practices, Symbols, and Communication / Michael Stausberg
• 11. Movement and Place-making: Multiple Crossings in the Lives of Mumbai's ISKCON Members / Claire C. Robison
• 12. Towards the Apocalyptic: Myth, Metaphor, and the Dystopic in Contemporary Mumbai Literature / Heinz Werner Wessler
• 13. A Hole in the Wall: Religion in the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar / William Elison.

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ISBN

• 0192889370 ((hardback))
• 9780192889379 ((hardback))
• 9780192889393 ((ebook))
• 0192889397 ((ebook))
• 9780192889386 ((ebook))
• 0192889389 ((ebook))

OCLC

1375545787

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