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Atheism and the Goddess: Cross-Cultural Approaches with a Focus on South Asia

Atheism and the Goddess: Cross-Cultural Approaches with a Focus on South Asia

Mukhopadhyay, Anway

Hardcover

General Gender StudiesHinduismIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 303127394X
ISBN13: 9783031273940
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 22 2023
Pages: 141
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book seeks to explore the complex modes of interface between religion, atheism, and the Goddess in multicultural contexts. While atheism has often been seen as an interrogation of and a battle against God, the gender dimension of this discourse has not been sufficiently negotiated. Is the fight against God also a fight against the Goddess? Or is there something common between the ideological thrust of the battle against God the Father in atheism and the interrogation of the Divine Father in thealogy? Can the Goddess be seen as an entity radically different from the imperious transcendental that the atheists find embodied in God the Father? Or, can the Goddess be seen as transcendental as well as immanent, and hence subjected to the same atheist denial of transcendence to which God is subjected in non-theistic or anti-theistic arguments? With this volume, Anway Mukhopadhyay embarks on a difficult project of epistemologically, ideologically and even politically renegotiating andreorienting some of the fundamental issues involved in the discussions of and debates over atheism.

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