LEADER 03882oam 2200805I 450 001 9910800035603321 005 20240131152355.0 010 $a1-135-09689-9 010 $a1-283-94173-2 010 $a0-203-07179-4 010 $a1-135-09690-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203071793 035 $a(CKB)2670000000315458 035 $a(EBL)1108514 035 $a(OCoLC)823719253 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000804123 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12335731 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804123 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10814364 035 $a(PQKB)10560966 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1108514 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1108514 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10643509 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL425423 035 $a(OCoLC)825181152 035 $a(OCoLC)828735275 035 $a(OCoLC)872688413 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134056 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000315458 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe postsecular imagination $epostcolonialism, religion, and literature /$fManav Ratti 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;$v45 225 0$aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;$v45 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-82237-X 311 $a0-415-48097-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: situating postsecularism -- Postsecularism and aesthetics: Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- Minority's Christianity: Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- Postsecularism and violence: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- If truth were a Sikh woman: Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remembers -- Postsecularism and prophecy: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Art after the fatwa: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories, The Moor's last sigh, Shalimar the clown, and The enchantress of Florence -- The known and the unknowable: Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's "Pterodactyl, puran sahay, and pirtha" -- Coda. 330 $aThe Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics an 410 0$aRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 606 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSecularism in literature 606 $aReligion in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aPostsecularism 606 $aReligion and literature$zCommonwealth countries$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSecularism in literature. 615 0$aReligion in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aPostsecularism. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 676 $a823/.91409 700 $aRatti$b Manav.$01587028 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910800035603321 996 $aThe postsecular imagination$93874348 997 $aUNINA