Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South (Theory in Forms)

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Thinking Secularism from the Global South
	Thinking from the Global South
		Critique of Eurocentrism
		Asia as Method
		Spirituality and Decolonial Thinking
		Unpacking West and Non-West
		“Other” Conceptual Traditions and the Question of Translation
	Secularism as Misdirection—A Map of the Book
1. State, Religion, and the Bodies of Women
	Hindu Supremacism as Secularism in India
	French Secularism as Majoritarianism
	Secular/Secularisation
	Multiculturalism
	Challenges to Secularism as a Neutral Category
	The State Determines “Religion\"
		The United States of America
		France
		India
	Can Bharat Mata Enter the Sabarimala Temple?
	The Uniform Civil Code
	Religious/Caste/Race Identity and Secular Politics
	A Hindu Left?
	Postsecularism Debates in the Global North—Read from the South
2. Hindu Majoritarianism and the Construction of Religion
	The Hindu Rashtra as a State Project
	The Majoritarian Politics of Numbers and Religious Conversions
	“Reconversion” and “Inter-denominational” Conversion
	Essential Religious Practice
	Religious Institutions as Income-generating Entities
	Religious Institutions/Deities as Juristic Personalities
	Global Hindutva
3. The Failed Project of Creating Hindus
	Savarkar’s Imagined Hindu Nation
	The Puranas
	The Violence of Brahmin Expansion
	Who Are Hindus?
	Adivasi-Dalit-Bahujan Counternarratives to Hindutva
	Dalit Bahujan Adivasi Goddesses
	Hinduism and Hindutva
4. The Self and Psychoanalysis from the Global South
	Ideas of the Self
	Psychoanalysis as Culture: China, Japan, and Buddhism
	Psychoanalysis as Culture: Arabic and Islam
	Psychoanalysis as Culture: A “Hindu” Landscape
	Secularism as Standardisation
	Secular Psychotherapy, Religious Faith, and Healing the Self
	The Other in the Analyst’s Chair
	Global South as Analyst, Not Analysand
	Historicising “Myth\"
5. Capitalism as Secular Science
	The Construction of Nature
	The Secular Reason of State
	Capitalism versus Religious Sectarianism
	Coronacapitalism in India
		Data Capitalism and the Aarogya Setu App
	The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project
		Natural or Man-made? Secularism versus Hindutva
		Natural or Man-made? Environment versus Development
		Religious Belief and Science on Trial
	Land Rights for Women as a Capitalist Agenda
		Land Struggles in India
		Land Rights Through Custom and Tradition in India
		Women’s Rights to Land in Personal Laws
		Forests and Community Rights
		Customary Laws and Women
	Property Titling for Capitalist Transformation
	Individual Rights to Land and Land Acquisition
6. Insurgent Constitutionalism and Radical Frames of Citizenship
	Insurgent Constitutionalism—Chile and India
		Chile
		India
		Pathalgadi
	Constitution-as-Commons versus Populism
	Citizenship
		Are Citizenship and Citizenship Rights Unambiguously Empowering?
		Why Is Citizenship a Feminist Issue?
		Should We Not Cast Citizenship Rights Within the Frame of Place of Work, Not Place of Birth?
		Citizenship and “Non-Secular” Identities
7. Reshaping Worlds—Beyond the Capitalist Horizon
	The Universal Basic Income Debates
	Universal Basic Income—An Anti-capitalist Critique
	Towards Escaping a Capitalist Horizon
	Rewilding
	Conflict Between Dalit and Ecological Concerns?
	Life Itself—The Virus and the Human
	The Problems with “Green Energy\"
	Degrowth, the Pandemic, and Radical Change
	Food and Land Sovereignty
	Commoning
	Pirate Care
	Escaping the Rulers
	Utopia, the “Outside,” and Solidarity
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