Limiting Secularism
Title | Limiting Secularism PDF eBook |
Author | Priya Kumar |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 145291379X |
With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar’s Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of “Indian” from “Pakistani” and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation. Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabitation can replace the “arrogant compulsive tolerance” of the state and the majority. Informed by Jacques Derrida’s recent work on hospitality and living together, Kumar argues for the emergence of an “ethics of coexistence” in Indian fiction and film. Considering narratives ranging from the cosmopolitan English novels of Rushdie and Ghosh to literature in South Asian languages as well as recent Hindi cinema, Kumar demonstrates that these fictions are important resources for reimagining tolerance and coexistence. Distinctive and timely in its investigation of secularism and communalism, Limiting Secularism works to envision the radical possibilities of going beyond tolerance to living well together. Priya Kumar is associate professor of English at the University of Iowa.
Limiting Secularism
Title | Limiting Secularism PDF eBook |
Author | Priya Kumar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9788178242347 |
The Limits of Tolerance
Title | The Limits of Tolerance PDF eBook |
Author | C.S. Adcock |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199995435 |
This book provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance. Examining debates surrounding the activities of the Arya Samaj - a Hindu reform organization regarded as the exemplar of intolerance - it finds that Tolerance functioned to disengage Indian secularism from the politics of caste.
Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism
Title | Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob de Roover |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780199460977 |
Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them.
The Limits of Tolerance
Title | The Limits of Tolerance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780199346417 |
Limits of the Secular
Title | Limits of the Secular PDF eBook |
Author | Kaustuv Roy |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2016-12-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3319486985 |
This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. It explores two kinds of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its assumptions with respect to the total being of the human, and how it curbs the ontological sensibilities of the human. Kaustuv Roy argues that since secular reason of modernity can only represent the empirical dimension of existence, humans are forced to privatize the non-empirical dimension of being. It is therefore absent from the social, imaginary, as well as public discourse. This one-sidedness is the root cause of many of the ills facing modernity. Roy contends that a bridge-consciousness that praxeologically relates the secular and the non-secular domains of experience is the need of the hour.
At the Limits of the Secular
Title | At the Limits of the Secular PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Barbieri Jr. |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2014-07-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802868770 |
This volume presents an integrated collection of constructive essays by eminent Catholic scholars addressing the new challenges and opportunities facing religious believers under shifting conditions of secularity and "post-secularity." Using an innovative "keywords" approach, At the Limits of the Secular is an interdisciplinary effort to think through the implications of secular consciousness for the role of religion in public affairs. The book responds in some ways to Charles Taylor's magnum opus, A Secular Age, although it also stands on its own. It features an original essay by David Tracy -- the most prominent American Catholic theologian writing today -- and groundbreaking contributions by influential younger theologians such as Peter Casarella, William Cavanaugh, and Vincent Miller. CONTRIBUTORS William A. Barbieri Jr. Peter Casarella William T. Cavanaugh Michele Dillon Mary Doak Anthony J. Godzieba Slavica Jakelic J. Paul Martin Vincent J. Miller Philip J. Rossi Robert J. Schreiter David Tracy