Secularism as Misdirection Critical Thought From The Global South 2nd Edition by Nivedita Menon ISBN 978-8178246970 817824697X

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ISBN 10:  817824697X

ISBN 13: 978-8178246970

Author: Nivedita Menon

In the performance of a magic trick, misdirection draws attention away from the trick to another place which appears more fascinating. This book shows how secularism creates such a misdirection. Menon argues that secularism stands in as an umbrella term for a range of associated ideas – global science, historical progress, general development, individual freedom, rational choice. Within this grid of meanings linked with secularism, certain features become hypervisible (religion, women) while others are obscured (caste, capitalism, the non-individuated and non-rational self). Secularism, Menon shows, is merely a strategy of rule, being compatible with both democracy and authoritarianism, capitalism and socialism. Only when we are no longer dazzled by secularism’s ability to misdirect can meaningful values – democracy, social equality, and ecological justice – emerge centre stage. This book is a powerful reconceptualisation of what secularism really means – of what is really being said under cover of the term secularism. Menon’s perspective is from the global South, specifically India, though her book is not about the global South. She explores religion, state, and women; Hindu supremacism’s project to equate Brahminism with Hinduism; psychoanalysis and the self in the global South; and new articulations of constitutionalism and citizenship across the world. This is one of those profoundly interesting books that make you rethink the nature of the world you were sure you understood.

Table of contents: 

1. State, Religion, and the Bodies of Women

2. Hindu Majoritarianism and the Construction of Religion

3. The Failed Project of Creating Hindus

4. The Self and Psychoanalysis from the Global South

5. Capitalism as Secular Science

6. Insurgent Constitutionalism and Radical Frames of Citizenship

7. Reshaping Worlds—Beyond the Capitalist Horizon

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