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cultural identities, religion, and conflict

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The colors of violence

cultural identities, religion, and conflict

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For decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts of religious violence, thrusting thousands of ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. In this provocative work, psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar exposes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines with grace and intensity the subjective experience of religious hatred in his native land.

Through riveting case studies, Kakar explores cultural stereotypes, religious antagonisms, ethnocentric histories, and episodic violence to trace the development of both Hindu and Muslim identities. He argues that in early childhood the social identity of every Indian is grounded in traditional religious identifications and communalism. Together these bring about deep-set psychological anxieties and animosities toward the other.

For Hindus and Muslims alike, violence becomes morally acceptable when communally and religiously sanctioned. As the changing pressures of modernization and globalization in a multicultural society grate at traditional religious-cultural identities, ethnic-religious conflicts ignite. The Colors of Violence speaks with eloquence and urgency to anyone concerned with the postmodern clash of religious and cultural identities.

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English
Pages
217

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The colors of violence: cultural identities, religion, and conflict
1996, University of Chicago Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-212) and index.

Published in
Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.6/0954
Library of Congress
DS422.C64 K35 1996, DS422.C64K35 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 217 p. ;
Number of pages
217

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL799703M
Internet Archive
colorsofviolence00kaka
ISBN 10
0226422844, 0226422852
LCCN
95035971
OCLC/WorldCat
33043083
Library Thing
923541
Goodreads
1846242
385312

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