TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elmore,Mark
TI  - Becoming religious in a secular age
SN  - 9780520964648
AV  - BL2016.H56 E46 2016eb
U1  - 200.954/52 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Essays
KW  - RELIGION / Reference
KW  - RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
KW  - Himachal Pradesh (India)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - India
KW  - Himachal Pradesh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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