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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"South India"”.
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Religion and the economics of fertility in south India
… fertility, in a group of rural communities in southern India. In so doing, it also assesses possible implications for state-level population policies in India, which may need to take into account differences in nuptiality, contraceptive adoption and fertility across religious groups. Religion …
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VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
… explores the distinctive intellectual history of South Asian multilingualism. Specifically, it focuses on the South India based Śrīvaiṣṇava religious community (c. tenth century CE onward) as a paradigmatic case. It analyzes the Sanskrit and Manipravalam, a mixture of Tamil and Sanskrit, …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… multi-caste Hindu women’s religious group in south India called the Śri Maṅgala Vināyagar Satsang Group (SMVS). It utilizes the group members’ narratives about rural-urban difference and modifications to Hindu women’s rituals to explore the continuous construction of middle-class identities in …
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Remote audiences beyond 2000 : radio, everyday life and development in South India
… communities living In remote hill areas of South India. Some of the more salient findings relate to media uses and preferences ot people, suggesting that sophisticated negotiations take place between audiences and media. These Include suspicion of television and its impact upon work …
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"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India
… transwomen, and Dosti, a large NGO in Bangalore, India, this dissertation argues that transgender women claim citizenship by drawing distinct borders between themselves and hijras and positioning hijras as undeserving of the rights of citizenship, thus bolstering their own citizenship claims. This …
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A New Public Theology: Sanskrit and Society in Seventeenth-century South India
… of the Smarta Saiva sectarian community of south India as captured by the theological writings of prominent Saiva theologians. I examine the sectarianization of Hinduism in microcosm by telling the story of a particular Hindu sect in the process of coming into being. The Smarta Saiva …
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Genealogies of the Citizen-Devotee: Popular Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India
… popular cinema, popular religion and politics in South India. It proceeds with a particular focus on the discursive field of Telugu cinema as well as religion and politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh from roughly the 1950s to the 2000s. By discursive field of cinema, I refer to not only filmic …
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Status and Ecology of the Nilgiri Tahr in the Mukurthi National Park, South India
… ungulate endemic to the Western Ghats in South India. I studied the status and ecology of the Nilgiri tahr in the Mukurthi National Park, from January 1993 to December 1995. To determine the status of this tahr population, I conducted foot surveys, total counts, and a three-day census and …
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Charismata and compassion : Dhinakaran, Charismatic healing and Pastoral Pentecostalism in South India : a practical theological assessment
… Calls divine healing movement as it developed in South India. It analyses the thought of the founder D. G. S. Dhinakaran, India's pre-eminent healing evangelist and explores its potential and adequacy as a pastoral theology. It draws out Dhinakaran's healing theology and model for ministry that …
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Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India
… among Dalits (the oppressed as untouchable) in South India, the Parayar. Since the late 19th century, members of this caste, and a few others from Tamil-speaking areas, have been choosing to convert to Buddhism based on conscience and conviction. This phenomenon of religious conversion-social …
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“Because We Are Catholic”: Music as a Bridge Between Identities Within the Catholic Community of South India
… I argue that the music of the Catholic Church of South India, which draws from Indian and Western music genres, functions as a cultural bridge allowing the worshiper to express a distinctively Catholic identity without distancing themselves from their Hindu roots. This cultural connection …
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