Total atheism : secular activism and the politics of difference in South India
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Total atheism : secular activism and the politics of difference in South India
（Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 38）
Berghahn, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-270) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mental Revolution: Becoming an Atheist in Word and Deed
Chapter 2. Professions: Narratives of Eminent Masculinity
Chapter 3. Propagation: Enacting Atheism in Oratory and Debate
Chapter 4. Programs (1): Eradicating Superstition through Magic
Chapter 5. Programs (2): Humanism and the Unmaking of Caste
Chapter 6. A Way of Life: Marriage and the Gender of Atheism
Conclusion
References
Index
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