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  title info:
    title: Faith Movements and Social Transformation
    sub title: Guru Charisma in Contemporary India
  name:
    name part: Pandya, Samta P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 205 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation. It further situates these movements in the context of the global political economy where such movements cross national boundaries to locate believers among the Hindu diaspora and others. In contemporary neoliberal India, HIFMs have become important actors, and they realize themselves by making public assertions through service. The four pillars of the contemporary presence of such movements are: gurus, sociality, hegemony and social transformation. Gurus, who spearhead these movements, create a matrix of possible meanings in their public discourses which their followers pick up to create messages of personal and social change. Sociality is a core strategy of proliferation across such movements and implies social service, which is qualified by memories of the guru and what they are believed to embody. Hegemony is reflected in the fact that social service in such movements often ominously imbibes right-wing or far-right Hinduism. They propose a model of Hindu-inspired social transformation, involving faith building into and transforming the civil society. The book discusses in a nuanced way several Hindu-inspired faith movements of various hues which have made national and international impact. This topical book is of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, social work, and social psychology, with a special interest in the study of religious movements. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Gurus, Sociality, Hegemony and Social Transformation -- 2. Guru Agency: Combining Charisma, Teachings and Proliferation -- 3. Faith Movements: Negotiating State, Market and Civil Society -- 4. Faith Networks: Interplaying Social Issues, Action and Service -- 5. Faith in Practice: Tangibility of Social Service -- 6. Faith Trappings: Shades of Hegemony and Hindu Nationalism -- 7. Transformational Actors: Private and Public Agendas -- 8. Actors in Social Transformation: Deliberating on a Mode.
  note: by Samta P. Pandya.
  subject:
    topic: Religion and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Society
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Religion
  classification: BL60
  classification: 306.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789811328237
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2823-7
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    record creation date: 181211
    record change date: 20190704161141.0
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