LEADER 03345oam 22004935 450 001 9910683359903321 005 20231108173145.0 010 $a9783031273957$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031273940 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-27395-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7218114 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7218114 035 $a(OCoLC)1373986321 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-27395-7 035 $a(CKB)26305237100041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926305237100041 100 $a20230321d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAtheism and the goddess $ecross-cultural approaches with a focus on South Asia /$fAnway Mukhopadhyay 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 141 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Mukhopadhyay, Anway Atheism and the Goddess Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031273940 327 $a1 Introduction: Religion, the Goddess and Atheism -- 2 Thealogy and Atheism: Points of Convergence and Divergence -- 3 Is There a Tradition of Rejecting the Goddess? -- 4 Starting or Ceasing to Believe in the Goddess: Faith Dynamics in India?s Living Goddess Traditions -- 5 Atheists and the Goddess -- 6 Conclusion: A Goddessless World or Goddess as the World?. 330 $aThis book seeks to explore the complex modes of interface between religion, atheism, and the Goddess in multicultural contexts. While atheism has often been seen as an interrogation of and a battle against God, the gender dimension of this discourse has not been sufficiently negotiated. Is the fight against God also a fight against the Goddess? Or is there something common between the ideological thrust of the battle against God the ?Father? in atheism and the interrogation of the Divine Father in thealogy? Can the Goddess be seen as an entity radically different from the imperious transcendental that the atheists find embodied in God the Father? Or, can the Goddess be seen as ?transcendental? as well as immanent, and hence subjected to the same atheist denial of transcendence to which God is subjected in non-theistic or anti-theistic arguments? With this volume, Anway Mukhopadhyay embarks on a difficult project of epistemologically, ideologically and even politically renegotiating and reorienting some of the fundamental issues involved in the discussions of and debates over atheism. Anway Mukhopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He has published widely on goddess cultures, including his recent book The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions (Palgrave, 2020). 410 0$aPalgrave pivot 606 $aAtheism$zSouth Asia 606 $aGoddesses, South Asian 607 $aSouth Asia$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aAtheism 615 0$aGoddesses, South Asian. 676 $a211.8 676 $a211.8 700 $aMukhopadhyay$b Anway$0972605 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910683359903321 996 $aAtheism and the Goddess$93086456 997 $aUNINA