Carte Disenchanting India Johannes Quack

Disenchanting India

Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India

Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges th...

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Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2011
Pagini
380
EAN
9780199812608
ISBN
0199812608
Enbook ID
04536148
Greutate
714
Dimensiuni
165 x 238 x 27

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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. Quack shows the rationalists' emphasis on maintaining links to atheism and materialism in ancient India and outlines their strong ties to the intellectual currents of modern European history. At the heart of Disenchanting India is an ethnographic study of the organization "Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti" (Organization for the Eradication of Superstition), based in the Indian State of Maharashtra. Quack gives a nuanced account of the Organization's specific

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