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Institutionalization is the focus of this volume. It refers to the means by which value orientations become operative in the interactions of people. Thirteen chapters document the institutionalization of devotional, reformist, radical or millenarian socio-religious value orientations in Shaiva, Shakta, Vaishanva, Arya Samaj, Satnami, Mahima Dharma, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Munda, Santal and Oraon context. The collection is organized into four sections each dealing with a paticular area of institutionlization, 1: the socio-cultural orientation and control of sacred spaces/ 2: the fuctioning of religious leadership/ 3: the formation of religions/ 4: the institutioal impact of sacred texts and rituals.

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The editor, Joseph T. O’Connell, is Professor Emeritus in the Study of Religion at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto (Canada). Since his Ph.D. studies on ‘Social Implications of the Gaudiya Vaisnava Movement’, at Harvard University (U.S.A.) and Government Sanskrit College (Calcutta), he has researched, taught and published exten­sively on religion and society in India and Bangladesh, especially on Vaisnavas and Muslims in Bengal. He has edited or co-edited several volumes: on Bengali studies, Gaudiya Vaisnavas, Sikh history and religion, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengalis in Canada. In 1990 he lectured at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study on ‘Biographies of Chaitanya as Sources for Historical, Sociological and Psychological Study of Religion’. While as a Fellow of the IIAS Project on ‘Socio-Religious Movements and Cultural Networks in Indian Civilization’, he published Religious Movements and Social Structure: The Case of Chaitanya’s Vaisnavas of Bengal.

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