PATTERNS IN PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGIONS

Lived religion is not simply a matter of believing; it is something that is done, and felt, expressed out in words and gestures of what ultimately matters.

The essays united in the present volume by eminent scholars from India, the United States and Europe, insist on multi-facetted expressions of religiosity in the contemporary global context, appropriately grounded in a historical perspective. They explore various socio-cultural, political, economic processes, as they are today, or as they were in antiquity, or as they were theorized by important historians and sociologists of religion.

Contributors

T.N. Madan

Sherry Sabbarwal

Mihaela Gligor

Douglas Allen

Santosh Kumar Singh

Radek Chlup

Sanjukta Bhattacharyya

Kevin Schilbrack

Carl Olson

Madhumita Chattopadhyay

Mihaela Gligor has a Ph.D in Philosophy and is a Scientific Researcher in Humanities at The Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca. She is also the Editor-in-chief of International Journal on Humanistic Ideology and has recently translated Amartya Sen’s book The Argumentative Indian into Romanian. In 2009, she has been an ICCR fellow at Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Sherry Sabbarwal has a Ph.D in Sociology and is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has lectured in various American and European universities and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.