Liberation and Purity: Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Postmodernity

First published in 1997. The rise of new religious movements has raised important questions about how race, ethnicity and the lives of black minority commu­nities in the West are to be understood. In Liberation and purity, Chetan Bhatt critically examines the ideas and organization of new Hindu and Islamic movements and relates this to contemporary debates in philosophy, social theory and cultural studies. He considers the creation of new traditions and new ethnicities by these movements an...