Ratti shows the extent of courage and risk involved in the radical imagination of these postsecular works, examining how writers experiment with and gesture toward the compelling paradoxes of a non-secular secularism and a non-religious religion. While focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie, Ratti addresses the work of several other writers as well, including Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, and Allan Sealy. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can fi nd expression and significance in the wake of such crises. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affi rmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures THE POSTSECULAR IMAGINATION POSTCOLONIALISM, RELIGION, AND LITERATURE
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