Nivedita Menon

Secularism as Misdirection

Critical Thought from the Global South

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Produktbeschreibung

Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.

Produktdetails

• Theory in Forms
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030423
• ISBN-10: 1478030429
• Artikelnr.: 68671904

Autorenporträt

Nivedita Menon

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Thinking Secularism from the Global South  1
1. State, Religion, and the Bodies of Women  35
2. Hindu Majoritarianism and the Construction of Religion  91
3. The Failed Project of Creating Hindus  126
4. The Self and Psychoanalysis from the Global South  198
5. Capitalism as Secular Science  261
6. Insurgent Constitutionalism and Radical Frames of Citizenship  315
7. Reshaping Worlds—Beyond the Capitalist Horizon  351
Bibliography  389
Index  443