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"The boundaries of religious traditions are being actively contested in India today, though in practice their internal and external structures are fl uid and open. Each religion takes a wide array of forms, refl ecting the diversity of the communities and adherents who fi nd relevance and meaning within it, and symbols and practices fl ow readily across what prove to be very permeable and overlapping boundaries between religious traditions. However, religion has been used by the powerful to assert and maintain dominance and in national and regional communal politics, at times fanning the fl ames of extreme violence. Fundamentalists and politicians today are engaged in ongoing attempts to drain away the fl uidity of religious traditions and to build solid walls that both shut down diversity within a given religion and clearly separate and protect one from the other."
ISBN
9780815633198
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
City
Syracuse, NY
Disciplines
Hindu Studies | History of Religions of Eastern Origins | Islamic Studies | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion | South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Recommended Citation
Martin, Nancy M. “Fluid Boundaries and the Assertion of Difference in Low-caste Religious Identity.” In Lines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia, edited by Tazim Kassam and Eliza Kent, 239-267. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013.
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Syracuse University Press
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In Tazim Kassam and Eliza Kent (Eds.), Lines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia