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The god market : how globalization is making India more Hindu / by Meera Nanda.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nanda, Meera.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--India.
- Hinduism--India.
- Hinduism.
- India--Religion.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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).
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published as The God Market by Random House Publishers India Private Limited, 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781583673102
- 1583673105
- 9781583673096
- 1583673091
- OCLC:
- 782923575
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