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Ethical selfhood and the status of the secular: Muslim identity in Mumbai
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Anand, Ari Singh |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | As part of a larger project, this essay contributes to the current anthropological rethinking of categories such as ‘religion’, ‘secularism’ and ‘politics’ in relation to social processes and subjects: a series of ventures that are related, in the Indian context, to modernity and liberal conceptions of statehood, sovereignty and personhood. In discussing everyday phenomena such as piety and religious authority, gender and childraising, and political and professional pursuits in Mumbai, I demonstrate that the ostensibly ‘religious’ domain of Islam is not necessarily the only, or even primary, basis for achieving a self-consciously ethical selfhood for even those who identify as observant and devout Muslims. I argue that the religious domain of Islam in this context is defined as such and intersected by discourses and practices of the self as a political and economic agent defined largely in terms of political modernity. |
| Starting Page | 377 |
| Ending Page | 398 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/14755610.2014.982667 |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.uwec.edu/ORSP/authors/2014/upload/Anand.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2014.982667 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
