Audrius Beinorius. Imagining Otherness: Postcolonial Perspective to Indian Religious Culture

The Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Economics A Postcolonial critique

This paper is a critical examination of some current texts in the discourse of global economics using contributions from postcolonial theory. Through an application of the concepts of ‘knowing’ and ‘representation’, it looks at the persistence of colonialist discourse in global economics and the wider implications of this for the disciplines of management and economics. With the increasing pace...

Religious Culture and Political Action

Recent work by political sociologists and social movement theorists extend our understanding of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy, but nearly all analyze religious institutions as institutions; few focus directly on what religion qua religion might contribute. This article strives to illuminate the impact of religious culture per se, extending recent work on religion ...

Exploring how Culture Influences Religious and Spiritual Beliefs in the Indian Health Care Setting

Using ethnographic techniques, I studied the religious and spiritual aspects of health care at the N.R.I. Academy of the Sciences in Chinakakani, Andhra Pradesh, India, to gain perspectives on how culture influences people’s beliefs about health. It became apparent that “cultural customs” accounted for people’s similar beliefs concerning recovery from disease and injury, irrespective of their d...

From Individual to Corporate Praxis: A Systemic Re-Imagining of Religious Education

Information technology offshoring in India: a postcolonial perspective

In recent years India has become the information technology (IT) offshoring destination of choice for many Western organizations. From the perspective of vendor organizations in India, however, the IT offshoring phenomenon is more than just a business relationship with Western firms. It is also embedded within the context of the longstanding imbalances of power in the relationship between the W...