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100			_aMenon, Nivedita
245			_aSecularism as Misdirection: critical thought from the global south
260			_aRanikhet _bPermanent Black _c2024
300			_axv, 478p. _bIncludes bibliography and Index
520			_aIn 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. 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.
650			_a Secularism -- Political aspects -- Developing countries _9747481
650			_aSecularism -- Developing countries _9747482
650			_a Religion and state -- Developing countries _9747483
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