Total Atheism

Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India’s rapidly transforming multi-religious society. It explores the social, cultural, and aesthetic challenges faced by a movement of secular activists in their endeavors to establish atheism as a practical and comprehensive way of life. On the basis of original ethnographic material and engaged conceptual analysis, Total Atheism develops an alternative to Eurocentric accounts of secularity and critically revisits central themes of South Asian scholarship from the hitherto marginalized vantage point of radically secular and explicitly irreligious atheists in India.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-04-09
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt577 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMethodology & History in Anthropology
Antal sidor290
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781789206746

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AcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationIntroductionChapter 1. Mental Revolution: Becoming an Atheist in Word and DeedChapter 2. Professions: Narratives of Eminent MasculinityChapter 3. Propagation: Enacting Atheism in Oratory and DebateChapter 4. Programs (1): Eradicating Superstition through MagicChapter 5. Programs (2): Humanism and the Unmaking of CasteChapter 6. A Way of Life: Marriage and the Gender of AtheismConclusionReferencesIndex

“This is a very useful and innovative study on a little-known, but important facet of Indian social and political activism…The endeavour of questioning the naturalisation of secularism and secularity so often undertaken in anthropological scholarship is eminently laudable. The study opens up further research questions and lanes of comparison which it would be worthwhile to follow up.” • Anthropos“This is an absolutely wonderful work of ethnography. Binder’s captivating and conceptually brilliant book sets the standard for future work on the anthropology of non-religion.” • Jacob Copeman, coauthor of Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India.