(DOWNLOAD) "Religious Practice and Democracy in India" by Pradeep K. Chhibber ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Religious Practice and Democracy in India
Author : Pradeep K. Chhibber
Release Date : January 31, 2014
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 2376 KB

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This book demonstrates the close relationship between religion and democracy in India. Religious practice creates ties among citizens that can generate positive and democratic political outcomes. In pursuing this line of inquiry the book questions a dominant strand in some contemporary social sciences - that a religious denomination (Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and so on) is sufficient to explain the relationship between religion and politics or that religion and democracy are antithetical to each other. The book makes a strong case for studying religious practice and placing that practice in the panoply of other social practices and showing that religious practice is positively associated with democracy.