Religious Practice and Democracy in India

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Religious Practice and Democracy in India is written by Pradeep K. Chhibber and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1139952560 (ISBN 10) and 9781139952569 (ISBN 13).

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.