Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia

István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His areas of research include various aspects of the history and sociology of South Asian religions. He is the author of a monograph on the Hindu deity Hanuman and has edited volumes on tantra, Yoginis, Banaras and consecration rituals.

• 1. Introduction: Spaces of religion in urban South Asia 2. Defining the postcolonial sacred: contested places of worship and urban planning in Delhi after Partition, 1947-1951 3. Inclusivism and its contingencies: following temple-goers in Kanpur 4. Conversionary Christian place-making in nineteenth-century Madurai 5. Sikh pilgrimage sites in the city of Nanded in Maharashtra 6. The production of Muslim space: mohalla life and Milad celebrations in Lahore 7. The boundary within: demolitions, dream projects and the negotiation of Hinduness in Banaras 8. Mantras of the metropole: Chetan Bhagat’s millennial Hinduism 9. Kali and the Queen: religion and the production of Calcutta’s pasts and presents 10. Timelines and lifelines: landscape practices and religious refabulations from South Asia 11. Land-grabbing deities: the politics of public space in a multi-religious neighbourhood 12. Making the "Smart Heritage City:" banal Hinduism, beautification and belonging in "new India" 13. Hindutva 2.0 as advertised monotheism 14. Purpose built: Islamabad, the Cold War, and non-Muslim Minorities in Pakistan 15. "We stand, but we do not pray:" religious plurality in a Mumbai chawl