| Total Atheism: Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India Contributor(s): Binder, Stefan (Author) |
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ISBN: 178920674X ISBN-13: 9781789206746 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $141.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Atheism - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 211.809 |
| LCCN: 2019055486 |
| Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Binder, Stefan: - Stefan Binder is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at University of Göttingen and part of the German Research Foundation's priority program "Ästhetische Eigenzeiten." |