Cover; Contents; Prologue; Introduction; PART I: Object of Inquiry: Indian Rationalists, Modes of Unbelief and Disenchantment; 1 Indian Rationalists; 2 Modes of (Non- )Religiosity and Unbelief; 3 Rationalization and Disenchantment; 4 Methodological Remarks and Research Setting; PART II: History: Roots of Organized Rationalism in India; 5 "Narrative" of the Indian Roots of Rationalism; 6 Evolution of Rationalism in Colonial India; 7 Influence of the English Rationalist Movement; 8 Organized Rationalism in 20th-Century India; 9 Recent History of Organized Rationalism in Maharashtra.
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India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist organizations: groups who affirm the values and attitudes of atheism, humanism, or free-thinking.