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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 34
Intersectionality in the Study of Religion
Series:
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 34 takes an intersectional approach to the study of religious and non-religious belief, in different geographical contexts, using a variety of methods and always privileging the layered identities of those who 'live' religion and non-religion in their daily lives. The
Open Section includes articles on topics of everyday significance such as experiences of
Zakat in Qatar, Muslim marriages in Britain and Indian migrants living in Indonesia. The
Special Section (
A Sociology of Religion or Belief in South Asia) includes articles that interrogate the politics of religious identity in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Throughout, this volume demonstrates how experiences of belief are shaped by local and historical contexts, in addition to theology.
Throughout, this volume demonstrates how experiences of belief are shaped by local and historical contexts, in addition to theology.
Ralph W. Hood Jr is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor. He is a past president of Division 36 of the American Psychological Association and a recipient of its’ William James award for research in the psychology of religion. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Brill series,
Psychology and Religion.
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Professor in the Sociology of Islam at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. She is Chair (2020-2023) of the Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) and edits Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSR). As a feminist sociologist, she interrogates the power dynamics within knowledge production and the implications of the processes and systems of knowledge on society as a whole. Her research portfolio currently includes research on digital religion, vulnerable children, definitions of security and inter-convictional dialogue. She has several publications including her latest title Muslim Women in Britain, 1850–1950: 100 Years of Hidden History (Hurst 2023).
Ashok Kumar Mocherla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. His academic areas include sociology of religion, caste system, minority studies, public health, missionary medicine, and faith healing. He is the author of Dalit Christians in South India: Caste, Ideology, and Lived Religion (Routledge: 2020) and editor of Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility and Resistance (Routledge: 2024). He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, USA, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA, and Bielefeld University, Germany.
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Professor in the Sociology of Islam at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. She is Chair (2020-2023) of the Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) and edits Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSR). As a feminist sociologist, she interrogates the power dynamics within knowledge production and the implications of the processes and systems of knowledge on society as a whole. Her research portfolio currently includes research on digital religion, vulnerable children, definitions of security and inter-convictional dialogue. She has several publications including her latest title Muslim Women in Britain, 1850–1950: 100 Years of Hidden History (Hurst 2023).
Ashok Kumar Mocherla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. His academic areas include sociology of religion, caste system, minority studies, public health, missionary medicine, and faith healing. He is the author of Dalit Christians in South India: Caste, Ideology, and Lived Religion (Routledge: 2020) and editor of Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility and Resistance (Routledge: 2024). He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, USA, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA, and Bielefeld University, Germany.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Colonization and Indian Psychology: a Reciprocal Relationship from the Perspective of Indian Postcolonial Theory
Kundan Singh
2 Human Rights as Implicit Religion: Exploring the Psychological Correlates of Belief in Human Rights and Human Rights Activism among 15- to 18-Year-Old Adolescents in England and Wales
Leslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna and Francis Stewart
3 Dialogue across Difference: Direct Conversation as an Intervention Method for Prejudice Reduction and Differential Consequences for Discrimination
Matthew Durham, Christopher F. Silver and William Andrews
4 Key Actors in the Regulation of Muslim Marriage and Divorce Practices in Britain
Fouzia Azzouz
5 The Reciprocal Effect between Zakat Mechanisms and Islamic Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century
Ola Alkahlout
6 Between Socio-spiritual Activism and Sectarian Identity: the Case of the British Barelwis
Hafza Iqbal
7 The Indians in Indonesia: After Sweat and Blood, Thus We Belong
Nia Deliana
Sociology of Religion or Belief in South Asia
8 Sociology of Religion or Belief in South Asia: an Introduction
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Ashok Kumar Mocherla
9 Islamic Environmentalism in Kerala: a Case Study of Chaliyar Struggle, South India
C. K. M. Nabeel
10 Secular Codes and Sacred Spaces: Negotiating the Spiritual Practices in University Campus of South India
Nagaraju Gundemeda, Anusha Renukuntla and Najla P. V.
11 The Halal Conundrum: Clash of Dietaries, Victual Politics, and Community Lives in Kerala’ Past and Present
P. K. Yasser Arafath
12 Hindu Women, Ritual Purity and the Sabarimala Judgment
Shailaja Menon and Jyoti Diwakar
13 The Role of Interreligious Dialogue in Promoting Inter-communal Harmony and Countering the Communal Violence in Bangladesh
Muhammad Rezaur Rahman and S. M. Morsalin Hider
14 Politics of Religion and Adi-Andhra Movement in Nizams Hyderabad State
Ramesh Babu Para
15 Albert Einstein, Swastika and Visuality: a Study of Exclusion within a University of Assam
Prithiraj Borah
16 From Aristocratic Virtue to the Ordinary: Democratisation of Ritual Healing Knowledge among Muslims of Malabar
Muhammed Hussain Arakkal and Ashok Kumar Mocherla
Index
Notes on Contributors
Special Section: Open Section
1 Colonization and Indian Psychology: a Reciprocal Relationship from the Perspective of Indian Postcolonial Theory
Kundan Singh
2 Human Rights as Implicit Religion: Exploring the Psychological Correlates of Belief in Human Rights and Human Rights Activism among 15- to 18-Year-Old Adolescents in England and Wales
Leslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna and Francis Stewart
3 Dialogue across Difference: Direct Conversation as an Intervention Method for Prejudice Reduction and Differential Consequences for Discrimination
Matthew Durham, Christopher F. Silver and William Andrews
4 Key Actors in the Regulation of Muslim Marriage and Divorce Practices in Britain
Fouzia Azzouz
5 The Reciprocal Effect between Zakat Mechanisms and Islamic Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century
Ola Alkahlout
6 Between Socio-spiritual Activism and Sectarian Identity: the Case of the British Barelwis
Hafza Iqbal
7 The Indians in Indonesia: After Sweat and Blood, Thus We Belong
Nia Deliana
Sociology of Religion or Belief in South Asia
8 Sociology of Religion or Belief in South Asia: an Introduction
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Ashok Kumar Mocherla
9 Islamic Environmentalism in Kerala: a Case Study of Chaliyar Struggle, South India
C. K. M. Nabeel
10 Secular Codes and Sacred Spaces: Negotiating the Spiritual Practices in University Campus of South India
Nagaraju Gundemeda, Anusha Renukuntla and Najla P. V.
11 The Halal Conundrum: Clash of Dietaries, Victual Politics, and Community Lives in Kerala’ Past and Present
P. K. Yasser Arafath
12 Hindu Women, Ritual Purity and the Sabarimala Judgment
Shailaja Menon and Jyoti Diwakar
13 The Role of Interreligious Dialogue in Promoting Inter-communal Harmony and Countering the Communal Violence in Bangladesh
Muhammad Rezaur Rahman and S. M. Morsalin Hider
14 Politics of Religion and Adi-Andhra Movement in Nizams Hyderabad State
Ramesh Babu Para
15 Albert Einstein, Swastika and Visuality: a Study of Exclusion within a University of Assam
Prithiraj Borah
16 From Aristocratic Virtue to the Ordinary: Democratisation of Ritual Healing Knowledge among Muslims of Malabar
Muhammed Hussain Arakkal and Ashok Kumar Mocherla
Index
Suitable for clinicians, researchers and graduate and post-graduate students in psychology of religion, indigenous psychology, cultural psychology, cross-cultural psychology, critical theory, sociology, anthropology and sociology of religion, religious studies, Islamic studies, Iranian studies.