The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict Hardcover - 1996 - 1st Edition
by Sudhir Kakar
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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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- Title The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict
- Author Sudhir Kakar
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 1996-05
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780226422848 / 0226422844
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.36 x 0.74 in (23.57 x 16.15 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Conflict (Psychology), Violence - Religious aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95035971
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.609
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