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Postsecular Theory

Texts and Contexts

Shuhita Bhattacharjee (Author), Sumit Chakrabarti (Ed.)

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Imprint

Orient BlackSwan

Year of Publishing

2023

Number of pages

264

ISBN

9789354421402

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Dimensions

140 x 216 mm

Series

Literary/Cultural Theory

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This volume is a critical introduction to the populous field of postsecular theory. A nuanced theoretical intervention into the ‘secular’ and the religious, it engages with both theory and praxis. Postsecular Theory charts the basic premises and sustained scholarship of the field, providing panoramic coverage and critical summation. It analyses a range of literary texts and issues from contemporary culture, to model literary praxis of postsecular theory.

The series:
Literary/Cultural Theory
provides concise, lucid and nuanced analyses of a range of key concepts, theorists and texts in contemporary literary and cultural theory.

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The author: 
Shuhita Bhattacharjee is Assistant Professor of Literature and Gender Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Design, at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

The editor:
Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor at the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata.

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Editor’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Acknowledgements

  1. The Problem of Faith and the Postsecular
  2. Surveying the Field
  3. The Critique of Postsecular Studies
  4. The ‘Secular Turn’ of the Enlightenment: The Historical Context and the Case of Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
  5. Nineteenth-Century Anxieties and Modern Perspectives
  6. The New Woman of Faith and Fears in Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage
  7. The British ‘Crisis of Faith’ in Fin-de-Siècle Novels of Colonial India
  8. Romancing Religious Hybridity: Science, Religion, and the Tensions of the ‘Secular’ in Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds
  9. The Perils of ‘Home’ and Paradoxes of the Hijab: Revisiting Rebellion and Liberal Agency in Satrapi’s Persepolis
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1. Book review | Published in the North American Victoria Studies Association (NAVSA) website, 14 December 2022.
2. Book review | Published in Victoriographies, Volume 14, Issue 3, November 2024.
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