RELIGIOUS INTERACTIONS IN MODERN INDIA C

Religions in South Asia have tended to be studied in blocks whether in the various monolithic traditions in which they are now regarded thus Hindu Muslim Buddhist Sikh Jain Christian or indeed in temporal blocks ancient medieval modern. This volume seeks to look at relationships both within and between religions. It explores the diversity and the multiplicity within each tradition the historical links between the various traditions which have crisscrossed the monoliths but also the specific forms of their coexistence with each other whether in accord or in antagonism. It views the interaction between reformed and nonreformed branches within each of the modern monoliths as for instance the Arya Samaj and the Sanatani positions within Hinduism. Its second major concern is to look for grounds shared in the process of modernizing. Though there has been much research to date on religious reform movements there has been less concern with investigating and analyzing developments across the religious boundaries that so sharply divide Hinduism Sikhism Buddhism and Islam from each other today and all of these from Christianity. And finally it also looks at the changing social and political frames of reference shared by both religious and secularist strands of thought. The religions targeted include Hindu discourses Brahmo Arya Sanatana and various traditional formations the AryanDravidian divide Buddhist Jain Sikh and Islamic traditions and Indian Christianity.