Disenchanting India - Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India

Zusatztext The book is a rich source of information...It provides the reader with food for thought on complex questions...The narrative is engaging and full of ethnographic detail about personal dilemmas, doctrinal conicts, and rationalist performances. Disenchanting India is a major contribution to and entry point for the study of complex and long-standing problems of Indian society. Informationen zum Autor Post-Doctoral Fellow, Heidelberg University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Quack, Quack Johannes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2011
• EAN: 9780199812608
• ISBN: 978-0-19-981260-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, RELIGION / Hinduism / History, History of Religion, Hinduism, Religious issues & debates, Religious issues and debates