Total Atheism : : Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India / / Stefan Binder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Binder, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206753; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206753?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stefan Binder.

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.