Total atheism :
Binder, Stefan.
Total atheism : secular activism and the politics of difference in South India / Stefan Binder. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2020. - viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm. - Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 38. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781789206746
Atheism--India--Andhra Pradesh.
Atheism --India--Telangana.
Atheists--Political activity --India --Andhra Pradesh.
Atheists--Political activity--India--Telangana.
Secularism--India--Andhra Pradesh.
Secularism --India --Telangana.
Religion / Atheism.
Atheism.
Manners and customs.
Secularism.
Andhra Pradesh (India)--Social life and customs.
Telangana (India) --Social life and customs.
India--Andhra Pradesh.
India--Telangana.
211.809548 / R0
Total atheism : secular activism and the politics of difference in South India / Stefan Binder. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2020. - viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm. - Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 38. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781789206746
Atheism--India--Andhra Pradesh.
Atheism --India--Telangana.
Atheists--Political activity --India --Andhra Pradesh.
Atheists--Political activity--India--Telangana.
Secularism--India--Andhra Pradesh.
Secularism --India --Telangana.
Religion / Atheism.
Atheism.
Manners and customs.
Secularism.
Andhra Pradesh (India)--Social life and customs.
Telangana (India) --Social life and customs.
India--Andhra Pradesh.
India--Telangana.
211.809548 / R0