03798cam a2200649Ki 4500 ocn951625708 OCoLC 20200709060432.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 160613s2016 cau ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T EBLCP YDXCP JSTOR 9780520964648 (electronic bk.) 0520964640 (electronic bk.) 9780520290532 0520290534 9780520290549 0520290542 (OCoLC)951625708 22573/ctt1cc6cb5 JSTOR a-ii--- BL2016.H56 E46 2016eb REL 017000 bisacsh REL 113000 bisacsh REL 054000 bisacsh REL084000 bisacsh 200.954/52 23 MAIN Elmore, Mark, 1973- author. Becoming religious in a secular age / Mark Elmore. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Becoming sufficiently developed in Himachal Pradesh, or How religion became problem -- God is a beggar : land reforms create religion as a separate sphere -- The ordinary miraculous : farmers and pharmacists practice the science of religion -- Managing religion : government, gurs, and gods -- Negotiating religion : normalization, abjection, and enrichment -- Cultivating religion amidst the conflicting desires of goats, gods, and government -- Afterword : religion is a verb. "Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, Becoming Religious in a Secular Age narrates their discovery and the ways it transformed their relations to their pasts, to themselves, and to others. And as Mark Elmore demonstrates, Himachali religion offers a unique opportunity to reimagine relations between religion and secularity more generally. Tracing the emergence of religion as a widely accepted category, Elmore shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. To become modern ethical subjects is to become religious, and this book creatively augments our understanding of both religion and modernity"--Provided by publisher. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Himachal Pradesh (India) Religion 20th century. Himachal Pradesh (India) Religion 21st century. Religion. fast (OCoLC)fst01093763 India Himachal Pradesh. fast (OCoLC)fst01202830 RELIGION / Comparative Religion bisacsh RELIGION / Essays bisacsh RELIGION / Reference bisacsh RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Elmore, Mark, 1973- Becoming religious in a secular age. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520290532 (DLC) 2016000006 (OCoLC)926061426 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1132472 EBSCOhost EBSC 1132472 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4305593 YBP Library Services YANK 12758762 92 N$T 56661 56661