Menon, Nivedita <br/><br/>
Secularism as Misdirection: critical thought from the global south 

 - Ranikhet  Permanent Black  2024 
 - xv, 478p.  Includes bibliography and Index 
<br/><br/> In the performance of a magic trick, misdirection draws attention away from the trick to another place which appears more fascinating. This book shows how secularism creates such a misdirection.<br/><br/>Menon argues that secularism stands in as an umbrella term for a range of associated ideas – global science, historical progress, general development, individual freedom, rational choice. Within this grid of meanings linked with secularism, certain features become hypervisible (religion, women) while others are obscured (caste, capitalism, the non-individuated and non-rational self). Secularism, Menon shows, is merely a strategy of rule, being compatible with both democracy and authoritarianism, capitalism and socialism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788178246970 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Textual 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Secularism -- Political aspects -- Developing countries<br/>Secularism -- Developing countries<br/> Religion and state -- Developing countries