Becoming Religious in a Secular Age - Couverture rigide

Elmore, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520290534 ISBN 13 : 9780520290532

Editeur : University of California Press, 2016

Synopsis

Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, Becoming Religious in a Secular Age tells the story of this discovery and how it transformed a community's relations to its past and to its members, as well as to those outside the community. And, as Mark Elmore demonstrates, Himachali religion offers a unique opportunity to reimagine relations between religion and secularity. Elmore shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its development. Showing us that to become a modern, ethical subject is to become religious, this book creatively augments our understanding of both religion and modernity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Elmore is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520290534
• ISBN 13: 9780520290532
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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