آتئیسم کامل: فعال‌گرایی سکولار و سیاست تفاوت در هند جنوبی (کتاب 38 روش‌شناسی و تاریخ در انسان‌شناسی)

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. "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"-- Provided by publisher 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