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100 1 _aBinder, Stefan,
245 1 0 _aTotal atheism : secular activism and the politics of difference in South India
260 _aNew York
_bBerghahn
_c2020
300 _a280
490 0 _aMethodology & history in anthropology
_vvolume 38
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aAtheism
650 0 _aAtheism
650 0 _aAtheists
650 0 _aAtheists
650 0 _aSecularism
650 0 _aSecularism
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