Liberation and Purity

Download or read book Liberation and Purity written by Chetan Bhatt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. The rise of new religious movements has raised important questions about how race, ethnicity and the lives of black minority commu­nities in the West are to be understood. In Liberation and purity, Chetan Bhatt critically examines the ideas and organization of new Hindu and Islamic movements and relates this to contemporary debates in philosophy, social theory and cultural studies. He considers the creation of new traditions and new ethnicities by these movements and explores how ideas of purity, pollution, the body, sexuality and gender are key themes in their ideas of emancipation. Bhatt explores the relationship between right-wing and progressive social movements in modern civil societies, and examines the influence on these movements of new globally-organized commu­nications technologies.