Becoming Religious in a Secular Age by Mark Elmore (English) Paperback Book

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Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. This book tells the story of this discovery and how it transformed a community's relations to its past and to its members.

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Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, Becoming Religious in a Secular Age tells the story of this discovery and how it transformed a community's relations to its past and to its members, as well as to those outside the community. And, as Mark Elmore demonstrates, Himachali religion offers a unique opportunity to reimagine relations between religion and secularity. Elmore shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its development. Showing us that to become a modern, ethical subject is to become religious, this book creatively augments our understanding of both religion and modernity.

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"Mark Elmore delivers a very refreshing contribution to several areas: religion and secularism studies, South Asian studies, and studies of religion in the Himalayas. The book offers a grounded and an exciting new way of looking at how a region with a particular colonial and postcolonial history remakes itself as a distinct region and becomes religious in the very teeth of intensifying secularist discourse and policy."--Leela Prasad, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University " Becoming Religious in a Secular Age is an important piece of work. Its primary contribution is to help us unlearn some of our most tenacious assumptions about religion and modernity. In addition, the book makes a positive contribution by considering what it means--for religion, for people, for the gods, for a state--when religion becomes a 'problem.' By writing this book, the author moves to a different, sounder level of thinking about religion; reading this book would help the rest of us to do the same."--Ann Burlein, Professor of Religion, Hofstra University

Author Biography

Mark Elmore is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Details ISBN0520290542 Author Mark Elmore Short Title BECOMING RELIGIOUS IN A SECULA Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520290542 ISBN-13 9780520290549 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Illustrations 25 images DEWEY 200.95452 Pages 304 UK Release Date 2016-07-05 Publication Date 2016-07-05 AU Release Date 2016-07-05 NZ Release Date 2016-07-05 US Release Date 2016-07-05 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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