(Post) Secular Discomforts: Religio-Secular Disclosures in the Indian Context

Goldie Osuri

doi:10.5130/csr.v18i2.2755

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Published: Sep 17, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v18i2.2755

Keywords:

religion, nationalism, Indian secularism, the (post) secular, communalism

Goldie Osuri

Macquarie University

Abstract

The post-secular turn at the intersection of the fields of political philosophy, anthropology, religious, postcolonial and cultural studies has highlighted theological political formations which have informed differential histories of the secular. This essay examines how debates around the secular and the post-secular play out in the Indian context. Some questions that the essay addresses are: What does a reconsideration of the secular, a probing of its discomforts, offer in the Indian context? And what are the limits of a post-secular turn—in the sense of a reconsideration of spiritual belief or theological conventions as a resource for co-existence—if we think through the forms of power generated by this turn?

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2012): Secular Discomforts and On Mad Men

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Secular Discomforts: Religion and Cultural Studies (Peer Reviewed)

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Author Biography

Goldie Osuri, Macquarie University

Goldie Osuri teaches at the Department of Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney. She is author of Religious Freedom in India: Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion (2012).

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Goldie Osuri, Macquarie University