Read Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

Manav Ratti

4.9/5 (19466 ratings)

Description:The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can find expression and significance in the wake of such crises. While focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie, Ratti addresses the work of several other writers as well, including Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, and Allan Sealy. Ratti shows the extent of courage and risk involved in the radical imagination of these postsecular works, examining how writers experiment with and gesture toward the compelling paradoxes of a non-secular secularism and a non-religious religion. Drawing on South Asian Anglophone literatures and postcolonial theory, and situating itself within the most provocative contemporary debates in secularism and religion, The Postsecular Imagination will be important for readers interested in the relations among culture, literature, theory, and politics.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature. To get started finding Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 271

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Routledge

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1283941732

Description: The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can find expression and significance in the wake of such crises. While focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie, Ratti addresses the work of several other writers as well, including Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, and Allan Sealy. Ratti shows the extent of courage and risk involved in the radical imagination of these postsecular works, examining how writers experiment with and gesture toward the compelling paradoxes of a non-secular secularism and a non-religious religion. Drawing on South Asian Anglophone literatures and postcolonial theory, and situating itself within the most provocative contemporary debates in secularism and religion, The Postsecular Imagination will be important for readers interested in the relations among culture, literature, theory, and politics.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature. To get started finding Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature, The: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

More Books

The Postsecular Imagination

The Postsecular Imagination

Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

Perfecting Human Futures

Perfecting Human Futures

Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction

Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction

Breathing Hearts

Breathing Hearts

Spiritual Identities

Spiritual Identities

On Endings

On Endings

Entertainment Theology

Entertainment Theology

Contemporary Fiction and Christianity

Contemporary Fiction and Christianity