ISBN:
9781789206746
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 280 Seiten
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology volume 38
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Binder, Stefan Total Atheism
DDC:
211/.8095484
Keywords:
Atheism
;
Atheism India
;
Atheists Political activity
;
Atheists Political activity
;
Secularism
;
Secularism
;
Andhra Pradesh (India) Social life and customs
;
Telangana (India) Social life and customs
;
Andhra Pradesh
;
Telangana
;
Atheismus
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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