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" Disenchanting India : "
Johannes Quack.
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874213
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Quack, Johannes.
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Disenchanting India : : organized rationalism and criticism of religion in India /\ Johannes Quack.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, ©2012.
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1 online resource (xvii, 362 pages) :: illustrations, map
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0199812616
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: 9781283427401
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0199812608
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0199812624
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9780199812608
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9780199812622
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Contents; Prologue; Introduction; PART I: Object of Inquiry: Indian Rationalists, Modes of Unbelief and Disenchantment; 1 Indian Rationalists; 2 Modes of (Non- )Religiosity and Unbelief; 3 Rationalization and Disenchantment; 4 Methodological Remarks and Research Setting; PART II: History: Roots of Organized Rationalism in India; 5 "Narrative" of the Indian Roots of Rationalism; 6 Evolution of Rationalism in Colonial India; 7 Influence of the English Rationalist Movement; 8 Organized Rationalism in 20th-Century India; 9 Recent History of Organized Rationalism in Maharashtra.
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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.
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Rationalism.
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Rationalism.
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RELIGION-- Agnosticism.
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Religion.
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India, Religion.
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India.
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211/.40954
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BL2765.I4Q33 2012eb
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