Atheism and the goddess : cross-cultural approaches with a focus on South Asia / Anway Mukhopadhyay.
Mukhopadhyay, Anway, author.
2023
BL2747.3 .M85 2023
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Title Atheism and the goddess : cross-cultural approaches with a focus on South Asia / Anway Mukhopadhyay.
Author Mukhopadhyay, Anway, author.
ISBN 9783031273957 electronic book
3031273958 electronic book
303127394X
9783031273940
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27395-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 141 pages).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-27395-7 doi
Call Number BL2747.3 .M85 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 211/.8
Summary This 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).
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Religion, the Goddess and Atheism
References
Chapter 2: Thealogy and Atheism: Points of Convergence and Divergence
References
Chapter 3: Is There a Tradition of Rejecting the Goddess?
References
Chapter 4: Starting or Ceasing to Believe in the Goddess: Faith Dynamics in India's Living Goddess Traditions
References
Chapter 5: Atheists and the Goddess
References
Chapter 6: Conclusion: A Goddessless World or Goddess as the World?
References
Index

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