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Periyar: A study in political atheism

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Literary cultural theoryPublication details: Hyderabad Orient Blackswan 2022Description: xi,133p. PB 21x14cmISBN:
  • 9789354421679
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 305.89 MANP
Summary: This volume is a thematic study of the work and ideas of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. It analyses Periyar's emancipatory, irreverent and revolutionary critique of religion using the idea of 'political atheism'. Drawing extensively from Periyar's own writings, contemporary accounts of Dravidian politics and the theory of Anarchism, this groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on Periyar's engagements with religion, caste and their collaborations with the state. Periyar is not just a new appraisal of 'Periyarism' but a reminder of its continuing significance in global conversations on justice, equality and liberty.
List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals - December 2022
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This volume is a thematic study of the work and ideas of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. It analyses Periyar's emancipatory, irreverent and revolutionary critique of religion using the idea of 'political atheism'. Drawing extensively from Periyar's own writings, contemporary accounts of Dravidian politics and the theory of Anarchism, this groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on Periyar's engagements with religion, caste and their collaborations with the state. Periyar is not just a new appraisal of 'Periyarism' but a reminder of its continuing significance in global conversations on justice, equality and liberty.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements

1. The Complete Rationalist as Anti-philosopher
Introducing Periyar

2. Political Atheism
Marxism, Anarchism, Periyarism

3. Ramasamy and the Ramayana
Periyar’s Approach to Hinduism

4. Emancipation through Conversion?
Periyar, Islam and Buddhism

5. Conclusion: Periyar for Our Times

Glossary of Select Terms
Texts for Further Reading

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