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100	1		_aMenon, Nivedita. _930523
245	1	0	_aSecularism as misdirection : _bcritical thought from the Global South _cNivedita Menon.
260			_aRanikhet: _bPermanent Black: _c2023.
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300			_axv, 478p.
490	1		_aTheory in forms
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Thinking secularism from the Global South -- State, religion, and the bodies of women -- Hindu majoritarianism and the construction of religion -- The failed project of creating Hindus -- The self and psychoanalysis from the Global South -- Capitalism as secular science -- Insurgent constitutionalism and radical frames of citizenship -- Reshaping worlds : beyond the capitalist horizon.
520			_a"In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hyper-visualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues. Showing how secularism is often invoked to serve capital and antiminority politics, Menon exposes it as a strategy of governance that is compatible with both democracy and authoritarianism, capitalism and socialism. Secularism also delegitimizes the nonindividuated nonrational self, Menon argues, and exploring this aspect, tracks the journey of psychoanalysis in the Global South. Menon further examines the interconnectedness of religion, caste, the state, and women, showing how the discourse of secularism can also be mobilized by Hindu supremacist politics in India. Menon puts Latin American decolonial theorists in conversation with Asian and African thinkers to examine twenty-first-century global reimaginings of selfhood, constitutionalism, citizenship, and anticapitalist existence. Through a feminist and global perspective, Menon suggests that transformative politics is better imagined by stepping out of the frame offered by secularism and focusing on substantive values such as democracy, social justice, and ecological justice"--
650		0	_aSecularism _zDeveloping countries. _930524
650		0	_aSecularism _xPolitical aspects _zDeveloping countries. _930525
650		0	_aWomen _zDeveloping countries _xSocial conditions. _930526
650		0	_aReligion and state _zDeveloping countries. _930527
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zDeveloping countries. _930528
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies _2bisacsh _930529
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State _2bisacsh _930530
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMenon, Nivedita. _tSecularism as misdirection _dDurham : Duke University Press, 2024 _z9781478030423 _w(DLC) 2023037241
830		0	_aTheory in forms. _930531
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