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Rich in anthropological detail and incisive analyses, 'The Fall of Gods' makes original contributions to the understanding of connection between gendered family relations and class mobility, and foregrounds the complex linkages between political history, memory and the private domain of kinship relations, in the making of Indias middle classes.

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This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial, ethnic, gender and class lines. Based on an ethnographic analysis of the working and family lives of migrant men within the IDRL, it focuses on the practices and strategies of migrant men employed as domestic/care workers in Italy. The authors highlight how migrant men's experiences of reproductive labour and family are shaped by global forces and national public policies, and how they negotiate the changes and potential conflicts that their 'feminised' jobs entail. They draw on the voices of men and women of different nationalities to show how masculinities are constructed within the home through migrant men's interactions with male and female employers, women relations and their wider ethnic network. Bridging the divide between scholarship on international migration, care work and masculinity studies, this book will interest sociologists, anthropologists, economists, political scientists and social policy experts.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Sociology --- Migration. Refugees --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Industrial economics --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- Psycholinguistics --- psychologie --- sociologie --- industrie --- sociale wetenschappen --- seksualiteit --- arbeid --- gender --- migratie (mensen) --- globalisering --- psycholinguïstiek

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Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants' motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.

Immigrants --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Religious life. --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Emigration and immigration --- Religious aspects --- Immigrants. --- RELIGION --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Religious aspects. --- General. --- Sociology --- Regional Studies. --- Anthropology --- Asia. --- RELIGION / General. --- Religious transnationalism, migrant identity, religious innovation, conversion, multiculturalism.