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Total Atheism: Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India

Total Atheism: Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India

Hardcover

Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology, Book 38

Atheism & AgnosticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 178920674X
ISBN13: 9781789206746
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Apr 9 2020
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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