This volume is a critical introduction to the populous field of postsecular theory. A nuanced theoretical intervention into the ‘secular’ and the religious, it engages with both theory and praxis. Postsecular Theory charts the basic premises and sustained scholarship of the field, providing panoramic coverage and critical summation. It analyses a range of literary texts and issues from contemporary culture, to model literary praxis of postsecular theory.
The series: Literary/Cultural Theory provides concise, lucid and nuanced analyses of a range of key concepts, theorists and texts in contemporary literary and cultural theory.
The author: Shuhita Bhattacharjee is Assistant Professor of Literature and Gender Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Design, at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
The editor: Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor at the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata.
Editor’s Preface Author’s Preface Acknowledgements