TY - BOOK ID - 78488932 TI - Becoming Religious in a Secular Age PY - 2016 SN - 0520964640 9780520964648 9780520290532 0520290534 9780520290549 0520290542 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State. KW - Himachal Pradesh (India) KW - Himācala Pradeśa (India) KW - Chamba (Princely State) KW - Religion KW - academic. KW - archival. KW - colonialism. KW - colony. KW - community. KW - conversion. KW - development. KW - eastern religion. KW - eastern world. KW - ethics. KW - ethnography. KW - himachal pradesh. KW - himalayas. KW - independence. KW - india. KW - indian independence. KW - modern world. KW - modernity. KW - religion. KW - religious awakening. KW - religious convert. KW - religious studies. KW - research. KW - scholarly. KW - secular world. KW - secular. KW - self discovery. KW - social studies. KW - transformation. KW - world history. KW - world religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78488932 AB - Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, Becoming Religious in a Secular Age tells the story of this discovery and how it transformed a community's relations to its past and to its members, as well as to those outside the community. And, as Mark Elmore demonstrates, Himachali religion offers a unique opportunity to reimagine relations between religion and secularity. Elmore shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its development. Showing us that to become a modern, ethical subject is to become religious, this book creatively augments our understanding of both religion and modernity. ER -