Religion in India (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social and Cultural Anthropology)

All the great religions of the world--Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism--are found within the geographic boundaries of India, each affecting people in some respect. Focusing on the sociological and anthropological aspects, this study attempts to elucidate the major approaches--evolutionary, structuralist, functionalist, cultural/analytical, phenomenological, and hermeneutic, while offering the reader a clear understanding of the religions' perspectives on time, space, knowledge, sacred persons, and reorientation of the sacred.Religion in India (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social and Cultural Anthropology), with ISBN 9780195630923 and ISBN 0195630920.