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  title info:
    title: Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies
    sub title: The Case of India
  name:
    name part: Sen, Ragini.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wagner, Wolfgang.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Howarth, Caroline.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 83 p. 5 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This Brief looks at the illustrative case of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of lived secularism as it exists in traditional multi-faith societies such as India. The data analyzed in this Brief comprise many interviews, conducted amidst Hindus and Muslims, with respondents of both sexes living in slum and middle class regions in the city of Mumbai. The volume begins by giving a brief summary of the historical and cultural background to the present situation in India. It then traces complementarities and similarities of opinions across diverse constituencies which cluster around three main anchoring points: communication, re-presentations and operationalizing of a shared dream. The first point explores the need to understand and to be understood, encourages processes of mutual acculturation, and describes the sensitive decoding of cultural symbols such as dress codes. The second point discusses changes in mind sets and mutual perceptions, where Muslims and Islam are portrayed in a balanced way and exploitation of religion for political purposes is stopped. The third main point is the involvement of the common, regular person, and a focus on children, as the unifying hope for the future. Throughout the volume, emphasis is on moral maturation, cultural interpretation in lieu of cultural imposition and creation of a sensitive media policy. The issues raised may help craft interdisciplinary and international frameworks, which address conflict resolution in culturally diverse multi-faith societies. Accordingly, the book concludes with policy recommendations for supporting the peaceful coexistence of secularism and religion in society from a peace psychological perspective.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Method: locating the offbeat -- Results and interpretations -- Conclusions.
  note: by Ragini Sen, Wolfgang Wagner, Caroline Howarth.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  classification: HM1001-1281
  classification: 155.2
  classification: 302
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
  identifier: 9783319019222
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01922-2
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    record creation date: 130930
    record change date: 20151204144509.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-01922-2