UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The new Cold War?: religious nationalism confronts the secular state Author: Juergensmeyer, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Asian Studies \| Religion \| Social Problems \| Middle Eastern Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Musl . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslims Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Islam \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to co . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection, one that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and co . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| South Asia \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia \| History Publisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India Author: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies \| South Asia \| Asian History \| Medicine \| History Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 Author: Eaton, Richard Maxwell Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Middle Eastern History \| South Asia \| Islam Publisher's Description: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies \| History \| South Asia \| Language and Linguistics \| Asian History \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial India Author: Mani, Lata 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| South Asia \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati , or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hindu places of pilgrimage in India ; a study in cultural geography Author: Bhardwaj, Surinder Mohan Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Geography Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Aging \| South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: India Author: Wolpert, Stanley A 1927- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| South Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The history of India is the engrossing story of an ancient civilization, reborn as a modern nation. More a continent than a single nation, India is home to over one-fifth of humanity, yet it remains a mystery to most non-Indians, barely appreciated and poorly understood. Stanley Wolpert's India prov . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Roots of North Indian Shīʿism in Iran and Iraq: religion and state in Awadh, 1722-1859 Author: Cole, Juan Ricardo Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In this pioneering study of the Twelver Shi'i branch of Islam prevalent in Iraq and Iran, J. R. I. Cole traces the influence of Shi'i rule on the development of religious communalism and conflict in the North Indian State of Awadh (Oudh). He also examines the relationship of the Shi'i clergy to the . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives Author: Harlan, Lindsey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understa . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Devī: goddesses of India Author: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Women's Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Gr . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Beyond the stream: Islam and society in a West African town Author: Launay, Robert 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| African Studies \| Islam Publisher's Description: Robert Launay has been observing the changing religious practices of the Dyula, a Muslim community in West Africa, for more than a decade. In Beyond the Stream , he examines the ways in which this religious and ethnic minority group living on the fringes of the Muslim world maintains its ties to the . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India Author: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Asian Studies \| South Asia \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Even childbirth is affected by globalization - and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Author: Starrett, Gregory 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Education \| Religion \| Islam \| Politics Publisher's Description: The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work , Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacy Author: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics \| Asian Studies \| China \| International Relations Publisher's Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the role . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Travel \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more] Similar Items