Religion and Politics                                                                                          Talal Asad, Guest Editor

    Religion and Politics: An
    Introduction                                                            Talal Asad                                                                3

    Private and Public Religions                                    Jose Casanova                                                        17

    Private Beliefs in Public
    Temples: The New Religiosity of
    the Eighteenth Century                                            Margaret C. Jacob                                                 59

    Ayodhya and Somnath: Eternal
    Shrines, Contested Histories                                    Peter van der Veer                                                85

    History and the Nationalization
    of Hinduism                                                            Partha Chatterjee                                                111

    Religious Metaphysics and the
    Nation-State: The Case of Oskar
    Golderberg                                                            Judith Friedlander                                                151

    Vatican Policy, 1978-90: An
    Updated Overview                                                Ralph Della Cava                                                  169

    Temporary Marriage and the
    State in Iran: An Islamic
    Discourse on Female Sexuality                                Shahla Haeri                                                        201
 
 

Talal Asad is professor of anthropology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.

Jose Casanova is assistant professor of sociology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.

Partha Chatterjee, professor of political science at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, was visiting professor of anthropology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in 1991.  He is the author of Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986).

Ralph Della Cava is professor of history at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Judith Friedlander is dean of social sciences and professor of anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.  Her most recent book is Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellecturals in France since 1968 (1990).

Shahla Haeri is a research assistant in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the author of Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran (1989).

Margaret C. Jacob is professor of history in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.  Her most recent book is Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe (1991).

Peter van der Veer, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Gods on Earth (1988).