The God Market

How Globalization is Making India More Hindu

Meera Nanda (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2011
Monthly Review Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-58367-249-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today's India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwining of Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growing capitalist class. It is this "State-Temple-Corporate Complex," she claims, that now wields decisive political and economic power, and provides ideological cover for the dismantling of the Nehru-era state-dominated economy. According to this new logic, India's rapid economic growth is attributable to a special "Hindu mind," and it is what separates the nation's Hindu population from Muslims and others deemed to be "anti-modern." As a result, Hindu institutions are replacing public ones, and the Hindu "revival" itself has become big business, a major source of capital accumulation. Nanda explores the roots of this development and its possible future, as well as the struggle for secularism and socialism in the world's second-most populous country.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2012
• Zusatzinfo: black & white illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 216 mm
• Gewicht: 359 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-58367-249-4 / 1583672494
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58367-249-5 / 9781583672495
• Zustand: Neuware