Johannes Quack

Disenchanting India

Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India

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Produktbeschreibung

India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist organizations: groups who affirm the values and attitudes of atheism, humanism, or free-thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780199812622
• ISBN-10: 0199812624
• Artikelnr.: 36143745

Autorenporträt

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Heidelberg University

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Prologue
* Introduction
* Part I: Object of Inquiry: Indian Rationalists, Modes of Unbelief and
Disenchantment
* 1. Indian Rationalists
* 2. Modes of Unbelief
* 3. Rationalization and Disenchantment
* 4. Methodological Remarks and Research Setting
* Part II: History: Roots of Organized Rationalism in India
* 5. ''Narrative'' of the Indian Roots of Rationalism
* 6. Evolution of Rationalism in Colonial India
* 7. Influence of the English Rationalist Movement
* 8. Organized Rationalism in 20th Century India
* 9. Recent History of Organized Rationalism in Maharashtra
* Part III: Ethnography: Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti
(ANiS)
* 10. ANiS in Action: The Science-Van
* 11. Organizational Structure and Set-Up of ANiS
* 12. Profile and Agenda of ANiS
* 13. Individual Interpretations and Applications of Rationalism
* 14. Rationalism as a Way of Life
* 15. ANiS in Context
* 16. Impact of ANiS
* Part IV Theory: The Mode of Unbelief of ANiS
* Bibliography
* Appendix