Becoming Religious In A Secular Age - 9780520290549

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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.


  • | Author: Mark Elmore
  • | Publisher: University Of California Press
  • | Publication Date: Jul 05, 2016
  • | Number of Pages: 304 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 0520290542
  • | ISBN-13: 9780520290549
Author:
Mark Elmore
Publisher:
University Of California Press
Publication Date:
Jul 05, 2016
Number of pages:
304 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0520290542
ISBN-13:
9780520290549