Postsecular Theory: Texts and Contexts
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Author: | Shuhita Bhattacharjee Edited by Sumit Chakrabarti |
ISBN 13: | 9789354421402 |
Binding: | Softcover |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2023 |
Subject: | Language and literature |
About the Book
This volume is a critical introduction to the populous field of postsecular theory. A nuanced theoretical intervention into the ‘secular’ and the religious, it engages with both theory and praxis. Postsecular Theory charts the basic premises and sustained scholarship of the field, providing panoramic coverage and critical summation. It analyses a range of literary texts and issues from contemporary culture, to model literary praxis of postsecular theory.
Contents: Editor’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Acknowledgements
The Problem of Faith and the Postsecular
Surveying the Field
The Critique of Postsecular Studies
The ‘Secular Turn’ of the Enlightenment: The Historical Context and the Case of Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
Nineteenth-Century Anxieties and Modern Perspectives
The New Woman of Faith and Fears in Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage
The British ‘Crisis of Faith’ in Fin-de-Siècle Novels of Colonial India
Romancing Religious Hybridity: Science, Religion, and the Tensions of the ‘Secular’ in Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds
The Perils of ‘Home’ and Paradoxes of the Hijab: Revisiting Rebellion and Liberal Agency in Satrapi’s Persepolis
About the Author: Shuhita Bhattacharjee is Assistant Professor of Literature and Gender Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Design, at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
The editor:
Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor at the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata.