Postsecular Imagination

Name: Postsecular Imagination
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Postsecular ImaginationPostcolonialism, Religion, and Literature\nAuthor(s): Manav Ratti\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138822375, 978-1138822375\nSynopsis\nThe Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can find expression and significance in the wake of such crises. \n\nWhile focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie,.