Astrology in india, Yadav, Nupurnima (university Of Delhi, New Delhi)
Автор: Yadav Nupurnima Название: Astrology in India: A Sociological Inquiry ISBN: 0367530643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367530648 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book critically examines the larger world of astrology in India, its ubiquity and relationship with religion, and its impact on economy, gender, class, religion, and caste.
Автор: Campion Название: Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West ISBN: 1138261629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138261624 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores an area of contemporary religion, spirituality and popular culture which has not so far been investigated in depth, the phenomenon of astrology in the modern west. Locating modern astrology historically and sociologically in its religious, New Age and millenarian contexts, Nicholas Campion considers astrology's relation to modernity and draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading modern astrologers to present an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins and nature of New Age ideology. This book challenges the notion that astrology is either 'marginal' or a feature of postmodernism. Concluding that astrology is more popular than the usual figures suggest, Campion argues that modern astrology is largely shaped by New Age thought, influenced by the European Millenarian tradition, that it can be seen as an heir to classical Gnosticism and is part of the vernacular religion of the modern west.
Описание: Concluding that astrology is more popular than the usual figures suggest, the author argues that modern astrology is largely shaped by New Age thought, influenced by the European Millenarian tradition, that it can be seen as an heir to classical Gnosticism and is part of the vernacular religion of the modern west.
Описание: This book contends that despite the divergent ideologies that inspire the Naxalite movement and Hindu extremism in India, it is possible to compare the two dissimilar violent movements and provides compelling arguments to do so, in drawing from extensive fieldwork across Jharkhand, Bihar, and participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
Описание: The book`s central questions - who makes claims on the state for social welfare, how, and why? - will be important to those interested in welfare provision, citizenship practice, and local governance. It is accessible not only to academic audiences in the social sciences but also to policymakers, NGO staff, and journalists.
Описание: This book looks at the sociology of India from two perspectives: first, understanding the cultural traditions of India with special reference to religious and ethical values; and second, exploring the growth of the sociological traditions of India.Divided in two parts, the book goes beyond mere description of the main religious traditions and looks at the ethical values that are embedded in the religio-secular traditions of India. It also projects the sociological traditions of India as a historical process, a process of growth of sociological knowledge. The basic premise of the discussion is not one dominant cultural tradition but the plurality that characterizes the cultural, religious, and value traditions of India, and pluralism that characterizes the sociology of India.
Автор: Geeta Kochhar; Snehal Ajit Ulman; Название: India and China ISBN: 0367335557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367335557 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book looks at the changing dynamics of diplomacy of the two emerging global powers-India and China. It examines trade relations, cultural ties and economic engagements of both countries and their shifting influence in the region surrounding them.
Автор: Rudrappa Sharmila Название: Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India ISBN: 1479825328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479825325 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4514.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational Asia Finalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially, as increasing numbers of couples from developed nations look for wombs in which to grow their babies. Some scholars have exulted transnational surrogacy for the possibilities it opens for infertile couples, while others have offered bioethical cautionary tales, rebuked exploitative intended parents, or lamented the exploitation of surrogate mothers—but very little is known about the experience of and transaction between surrogate mothers and intended parents outside the lens of the many agencies that control surrogacy in India. Drawing from rich interviews with surrogate mothers and egg donors in Bangalore, as well as twenty straight and gay couples in the U.S. and Australia, Discounted Life focuses on the processes of social and market exchange in transnational surrogacy. Sharmila Rudrappa interrogates the creation and maintenance of reproductive labor markets, the function of agencies and surrogacy brokers, and how women become surrogate mothers. Is surrogacy solely a labor contract for which the surrogate mother receives wages, or do its meanings and import exceed the confines of the market? Rudrappa argues that this reproductive industry is organized to control and disempower women workers and yet her interviews reveal that, by and large, the surrogate mothers in Bangalore found the experience life affirming. Rudrappa explores this tension, and the lived realities of many surrogate mothers whose deepening bodily commodification is paradoxically experienced as a revitalizing life development. A detailed and moving study, Discounted Life delineates how local labor markets intertwine with global reproduction industries, how Bangalore’s surrogate mothers make sense of their participation in reproductive assembly lines, and the remarkable ways in which they negotiate positions of power for themselves in progressively untenable socio-economic conditions.
Название: Kipling in india, india in kipling ISBN: 0367547287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367547288 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Kipling`s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, and made many canonize him as an emblem of the `Raj`. This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling`s connection with India, its people, culture, languages and locales through his experiences and his writings.
Автор: Kannan, Monika (sophia Girls` College (autonomous), Mirshahli, Jaipur Road, Ajmer (rajasthan), India) Singh, Mehtab (department Of Geography, M.d.univ Название: Geographical information system and crime mapping ISBN: 0367359030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367359034 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 11023.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book features a diverse array of Geographic Information System (GIS) applications in crime analysis, from general issues to specific applications, supporting development and implementation of mapping techniques. Concepts are supported with relevant case studies and real time crime data to illustrate concepts and applications of crime mapping.
Описание: This book critically discusses two important trends in twentieth-century Indian politics around caste - the rise in the political salience of caste identities, and a shift in the way caste identity was conceptualized.
Описание: In this book, Das presents a class-based perspective on the economic and political situation in contemporary India in a globalizing world. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, as well as poverty/inequality, geographically uneven development, technological change, and export-oriented, nature-dependent production. The book also deals with Left-led struggles in the form of the Naxalite/Maoist movement and trade-union strikes, and presents a non-sectarian Left critique of the Left. It also discusses the politics of the Right expressed as fascistic tendencies, and the question of what is to be done.
The book applies abstract theoretical ideas to the concrete situation in India, which, in turn, inspires rethinking of theory. Das unabashedly shows the relevance of class theory that takes seriously the matter of oppression/domination of religious minorities and lower castes.
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