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ISBN: 9780801469022 9780801452024 0801452023 9780801479182 0801479185 1322522332 0801469023 9780801469015 0801469015 Year: 2013 Volume: *1 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press
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Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right.The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.
Literacy programs --- Literacy campaigns --- National literacy campaigns --- National literacy programs --- Reading programs (Literacy) --- Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India) --- Arivoli Iyakkam (Tamil Nadu, India) --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Literacy --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- #SBIB:309H518 --- Illiteracy --- Political aspects --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Azië --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Rural conditions. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Anthropology / Cultural --- Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India) --- Tamilnad (India) --- Tamishagam (India) --- Tamizhagam (India : State) --- Tamil Nadu --- Tamilnadu (India) --- Tamilanāḍu (India) --- Thamilnadu (India) --- Madras (India : State) --- Education --- General education --- Government policy --- Social Sciences --- Education, Special Topics
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ISBN: 9789004270817 9789004270862 9004270868 9004270817 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston Brill
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Religion can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution seeks to clarify the causes of religious conflict as perceived by Christian, Muslim and Hindu college students in Tamil Nadu, India. These students in varying degrees attribute conflict to force-driven causes, namely to coercive power as a means of achieving the economic, political or socio-cultural goals of religious groups. The study reveals how force-driven religious conflict is influenced by prescriptive beliefs like religious practice and mystical experience, and descriptive beliefs such as the interpretation of religious plurality and religiocentrism. It also elaborates on the practical consequences of the salient findings for the educational process.
291 --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Violence --- Peace --- Christianity --- Islam --- Hinduism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Religious aspects --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims --- Church history --- Peace (Theology) --- Religion and peace --- Prayers for peace --- Violence (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Moral and religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Hinduism. --- Religion. --- Religious aspects. --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- India --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Tamil Nadu --- Tamilnad (India) --- Tamishagam (India) --- Tamizhagam (India : State) --- Tamilnadu (India) --- Tamilanāḍu (India) --- Thamilnadu (India) --- Madras (India : State) --- humanities --- Explained variation --- Hindus --- In-group and out-group --- Monism --- Mysticism --- Religiocentrism --- Socioeconomics --- Hindus. --- Monism. --- Muslims. --- Mysticism. --- Economics --- Sociological aspects.
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