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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter gottschalk”
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  • American Heretics

    Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance

    by Peter Gottschalk ...
    In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty and freedom. Called the Know Nothings, they started riots during elections, tarred and feathered their political enemies, and barred men from employment based on their religion. The group that caused this ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment

    Picturing the Enemy

    by Peter Gottschalk, Gabriel Greenberg ...
    In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. A clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and the war on terror seems a struggle against Islam. These are all symptoms of Islamophobia. Meanwhile, the current surge in nativist bias reveals the racism of anti-Muslim sentiment. This book explores ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Hindu, Muslim, & the Dynamics of Identity in South Asia

    Belonging and Conflict from the Past to the Present

    Edited by Peter Gottschalk ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
    For centuries, many South Asians and Westerners have assumed that an inherent tension between Hindus and Muslims represents a social fact that has long defined the Subcontinent's history. This volume brings together a wealth of contributions that demonstrate how, for many individuals and groups, 'Hindu' and 'Muslim' are, and always have been, more than predetermined markers of religion. Rather, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Engaging South Asian Religions

    Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances

    Edited by Mathew N. Schmalz, Peter Gottschalk ...
    Series series SUNY series in Hindu Studies
    Looks at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to contemporary times.Focusing on boundaries, appropriations, and resistances involved in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this edited volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial period in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It pays particular attention to contemporary controversies ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam

    by Carl W. Ernst ...
    The classic introduction to the philosophies, practices, and history of Sufism, the mystical tradition of IslamThe Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished—from Morocco to India to China—and as varied as their distinctive forms of art, music, poetry, and dance. They are said to represent the mystical heart of Islam, yet the term Sufism is notoriously difficult to define, ... Read more

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  • Sultana's Dream

    And Selections from The Secluded Ones

    by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Hanna Papanek ...
    Series series A Feminist Press Sourcebook
    Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia-a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating ... Read more

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  • Being Pakistani

    Society, Culture and the Arts

    by Raza Rumi ...
    How different is Pakistan's culture from that of India? Exploring various aspects of the arts, literature and heritage of Pakistan, Raza Rumi argues that culture in Pakistan is not particularly unique to the nation, but rather a part of the cultural identities shared by South Asians. From the songs of Kabir and the ballads of Bulleh Shah to the cult of the feminine in the Sindh region, Rumi takes ... Read more

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  • India

    5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

    by Professor Audrey Truschke ...
    A dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context—from antiquity to todayMuch of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating ... Read more

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  • Sufism and the Way of Blame

    Hidden Sources of a Sacred Psychology

    by Yannis Toussulis PhD ...
    Gold Winner of the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award and the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award!This is a definitive book on the Sufi “way of blame” that addresses the cultural life of Sufism in its entirety. Originating in ninth-century Persia, the “way of blame” (Arab. malamatiyya) is a little-known tradition within larger Sufism that focused on the psychology of egoism and engaged in self ... Read more

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  • Islam in South Asia in Practice

    Edited by Barbara D. Metcalf ...
    Series series Princeton Readings in Religions
    This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, ... Read more

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  • Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century

    Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan

    by Nile Green ...
    Series series Routledge Sufi Series
    Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.Placing the mystical traditions of ... Read more

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  • Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently ... Read more

    $35.99 USD