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Hinduism in Translation Hinduism in Translation
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Religious Practices, Hindu Missionaries, and Cultural Purification Religious Practices, Hindu Missionaries, and Cultural Purification
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A Nervous Relationship: Contemporary Hindu Practices in the Townships A Nervous Relationship: Contemporary Hindu Practices in the Townships
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The Call of Global Hinduism The Call of Global Hinduism
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Globalized Islam and the Impurities of the Past Globalized Islam and the Impurities of the Past
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Muslim Durban Muslim Durban
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Deculturation and the Invention of the Pure Muslim Deculturation and the Invention of the Pure Muslim
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“Oh Lord, Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz?” “Oh Lord, Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz?”
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Da’wah in the Township Da’wah in the Township
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Reaching for the Universal Reaching for the Universal
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7 Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives
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Published:July 2012
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This chapter analyzes the quest for religious purification that arose from the Indian middle class in South Africa. It talks about the power and attractiveness of neo-Hindu movements in South Africa and how new and more standardized Brahmanical forms of Hinduism today clash with the popular customs and traditions that still inform ideas of belief and rituals in the Indian townships. A strikingly similar logic of purification is at work among the Muslims of Indian origin, only even more so. Apartheid forced forms of social and ritual sharing upon communities that despite their common religious orientation have little desire or inclination to share social spaces or mosques. The postapartheid society has made it possible for the traditional Muslim elite to embrace global piety movements and to reimagine their own genealogies as somehow Arab and thus not South Asian.
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