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020			_a9781316601204
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100			_aChibber, Pradip K.
245			_aReligious Practice and Democracy in India / _cPradip K. Chibber.
260			_aDelhi: _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a204 p. ;
505			_a1. Religious Practices, Social Hierarchies, and Political Representation; 2. The Influence of Religious Practice; 3. Social Domination: Cast and Political Representation; 4. Avenues for the Connected: Civic Associations and Democracy; 5. Political Institutions and the Reproduction of Inequalities; 6. Party Competition, Ideology, and Social Divisions; 7. Conclusion.
520			_aReligious Practice in India: This book demonstrates the close relationship between religion and democracy in India. Religious practice creates ties among citizens that can generate positive and Democratic political outcomes. In pursuing this line of inquiry the book questions a dominant strand in some contemporary social science - that a religious denomination (Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh,etc.) is sufficient to explain the relationship between religion and politics, or that religion and democracy are antithetical to each other. The book makes a strong case for studying religious practice and placing that p[ractice in the panoply of other social practices.
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