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Religious Practice and Democracy in India

Religious Practice and Democracy in India

Hardcover

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1107041503
ISBN13: 9781107041509
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 17 2014
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book demonstrates the close relationship between religion and democracy in India. Religious practice creates ties among citizens that can generate positive and democratic political outcomes. In pursuing this line of inquiry the book questions a dominant strand in some contemporary social sciences - that a religious denomination (Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, etc.) is sufficient to explain the relationship between religion and politics or that religion and democracy are antithetical to each other. The book makes a strong case for studying religious practice and placing that practice in the panoply of other social practices and showing that religious practice is positively associated with democracy.

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