India's religions: perspectives from sociology and history/ edited by T.N. Madan - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. - xiii, 428 p. ; 23 cm. - (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology) .

The eucharist in a syrian Christian church / Susan Visvanathan --
The food area in a hindu home / R.S. Khare --
Death and cosmogony in Kashi / Jonathan P. Parry --
Hindu worship / C.J. Fuller --
Virashaiva devotion / A.K. Ramanujan --
Faith and suffering in shia Islam / Akbar S. Ahmed --
Jain monks / Lawrence A. Babb --
Muslim spiritual masters / Desiderio Pinto --
Sikh martyrs / Louis E. Fenech --
Folklore / Viramma, Josiane Racine, and Jean-Luc Racine --
Dharma / Gavin Flood --
The Khalsa rahit / W.H. Mcleod --
The Kabir-panth / David N. Lorenzen --
The Ramakrishna Mission / Krishna Prakash Gupta --
Ambedkar's Buddhism / Martin Fuchs --
The South Indian temple : authority, honour, and redistribution / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge --
Church and community in Goa / Rowena Robinson --
Religious devotion and politics at Hazratbal in Kashmir / Muhammad Ishaq Khan.

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