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Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity-that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West-by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930's and finds that modern education effectively reinforced the place of religion in colonial India. Debates over the mundane aspects of schooling, rather than debates between religious leaders, transformed the everyday definitions of what it meant to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. Speaking to our own time, Sengupta concludes that today's Qur'an schools are not, as has been argued, throwbacks to a premodern era. She argues instead that Qur'an schools share a pedagogical frame with today's Christian and Muslim schools, a connection that plays out the long history of this colonial encounter.

Education --- Hindus --- Muslims --- Church schools --- History. --- bengal. --- christianity. --- colonial india. --- colonialism. --- comparative religion. --- contemporary perspective. --- global christianity. --- hinduism. --- hindus. --- historical. --- imperialism. --- islam. --- missionaries. --- missionary schools. --- modern education. --- modernization. --- muslims. --- nonfiction. --- pedagogical. --- political. --- quran schools. --- religious education. --- religious historians. --- religious leaders. --- religious scholars. --- religious studies. --- retrospective. --- secularization. --- western perspective.

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The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays-many recognized as classics in the field-that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly "lived" religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the "new India" of Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, where global connections and local traditions rub shoulders daily. Readers are then offered a glimpse into the multifaceted world of Hindu worship, life-cycle rites, festivals, performances, gurus, and castes. The book's final sections deal with the Hinduism that is emerging in diasporic North America and with issues of identity that face Hindus in India and around the world: militancy versus tolerance and the struggle between owning one's own religion and sharing it with others. Contributors: Andrew Abbott, Michael Burawoy, Patricia Hill Collins, Barbara Ehrenreich, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Sharon Hays, Douglas Massey, Joya Misra, Orlando Patterson, Frances Fox Piven, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Judith Stacey, Arthur Stinchcombe, Alain Touraine, Immanuel Wallerstein, William Julius Wilson, Robert Zussman

Hinduism - Customs and practices. --- Hinduism - Social aspects. --- Religious life - Hinduism. --- Religious life --- Hinduism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Customs and practices --- Social aspects --- Customs and practices. --- Social aspects. --- Hinduism. --- Religious life (Hinduism) --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- asia scholars. --- bangalore. --- caste system. --- comparative religion. --- diasporic communities. --- diversity. --- essay collection. --- global religions. --- globalism. --- gurus. --- hindu festivals. --- hindu worship. --- hinduism. --- hindus. --- india. --- indian history. --- indian society. --- life cycles. --- local traditions. --- nonfiction essays. --- religion and culture. --- religious historians. --- religious history. --- religious rites. --- religious scholars. --- religious studies. --- religious traditions. --- theology.

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Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States-a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history-from the communities that sent formal letters of greeting to George Washington; to the three thousand Jewish men who fought for the Confederacy and the ten thousand who fought in the Union army; to the Jewish activists who devoted themselves to the labor movement and the civil rights movement. Diner portrays this history as a constant process of negotiation, undertaken by ordinary Jews who wanted at one and the same time to be Jews and full Americans. Accordingly, Diner draws on both American and Jewish sources to explain the chronology of American Jewish history, the structure of its communal institutions, and the inner dynamism that propelled it. Her work documents the major developments of American Judaism-he economic, social, cultural, and political activities of the Jews who immigrated to and settled in America, as well as their descendants-and shows how these grew out of both a Jewish and an American context. She also demonstrates how the equally compelling urges to maintain Jewishness and to assimilate gave American Jewry the particular character that it retains to this day in all its subtlety and complexity.

Jews --- History. --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- History --- Ethnic relations --- american context. --- american history. --- american jewry. --- american jews. --- american judaism. --- antisemitism. --- civil rights movement. --- comparative religion. --- confederacy. --- cultural history. --- economic perspective. --- historiography. --- jewish communities. --- jewish culture. --- jewish experience. --- jewishness. --- judaism. --- labor movement. --- nonfiction. --- political activists. --- political acts. --- religion in america. --- religious historians. --- retrospective. --- social history. --- union army. --- united states. --- Jewish communities --- American Jews --- migration --- Jewish life in America --- Jewish politics --- 20th century --- Judaism

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Violence has been a central feature of America's history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through religious texts, symbols, rituals, and ideas. Yet too often the religious dimensions of violence, especially in the American context, are ignored or overstated-in either case, poorly understood. From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America corrects these misunderstandings. Charting and interpreting the tendrils of religion and violence, this book reveals how formative moments of their intersection in American history have influenced the ideas, institutions, and identities associated with the United States. Religion and violence provide crucial yet underutilized lenses for seeing America anew-including its outlook on, and relation to, the world.

United States - Religion. --- United States -- Religion. --- Violence - Religious aspects. --- Violence -- Religious aspects. --- Violence - United States. --- Violence -- United States. --- Violence --- Religious aspects --- United States --- Religion. --- america. --- american culture. --- american experience. --- american history. --- christianity. --- cultural history. --- formative moments. --- jeremiad. --- jihad. --- law enforcement. --- modern history. --- order and meaning. --- political history. --- religion and culture. --- religious historians. --- religious history. --- religious identities. --- religious institutions. --- religious rituals. --- religious texts. --- religious violence. --- revolution. --- secession. --- terrorism. --- united states. --- violent history. --- war. --- Religious aspects.

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The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history. In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China. Drawing on a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography to social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.  

Islamic civilization -- 19th century. --- Islamic countries -- History -- 19th century. --- Technology -- Islamic countries -- History -- 19th century. --- Islamic civilization --- Technology --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- History --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Civilization, Islamic --- Muslim civilization --- Islam --- anno 1800-1899 --- History of civilization --- Islamic civilization. --- Technology. --- 1800-1899. --- Islamic countries --- Islamic countries. --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- 19th century. --- age of print. --- age of steam. --- china. --- comparative religion. --- cultural revolutions. --- economic change. --- global muslims. --- global religions. --- globalization. --- human history. --- indian ocean. --- industrialization. --- islam. --- islamic scholars. --- islamic world. --- long distance migration. --- muslim communities. --- muslims. --- north africa. --- print technologies. --- religious historians. --- religious history. --- religious scholars. --- social change. --- social network theory. --- south asia. --- steamships. --- technological developments.