RT Book
T1 Becoming religious in a secular age
A1 Elmore, Mark
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/846097273
AB "Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, Becoming Religious in a Secular Age narrates their discovery and the ways it transformed their relations to their pasts, to themselves, and to others. And as Mark Elmore demonstrates, Himachali religion offers a unique opportunity to reimagine relations between religion and secularity more generally. Tracing the emergence of religion as a widely accepted category, Elmore shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. To become modern ethical subjects is to become religious, and this book creatively augments our understanding of both religion and modernity"--Provided by publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL2016.H56
SN 978-0-520-29054-9
SN 978-0-520-29053-2
SN 0-520-29053-4
SN 0-520-29054-2
K1 Himachal Pradesh (India) : Religion : 20th century
K1 Himachal Pradesh (India) : Religion : 21st century