Postmodernism and Religious Fundamentalism by Meera Nanda


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ProductID: 12358 - Paperback - 82 Pages (Year: 2003)
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The promotion of an anti-Enlightenment, anti-modernist view of the world by the seemingly leftwing, postmodernist scholars with indigenist sympathies has ended up affirming the common sense of rightwing fundamentalist movements. We have landed in a situation where Hindu, Islamic and Christian fundamentalists assert the right to their own science, and this sits well with the postmodernist denigration of science as a western construct. Hindutva, this book demonstrates, speaks the same language as academic postmodernism popularized in India by the neo-gandhian and postcolonial critics of modernity. The secularization of science-the hard-won freedom of science from churches, brahmans and mullahs-is under threat. However, philosopher of science Meera Nanda, in this collection-an essay, a review of her work, and an interview with her -sees hope in the ideas of Ambedkar, the dalit movement and neo-Buddhism.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

MEERA NANDA
Postmodernism and Religious Fundamentalism
The Construction of Vedic Science
The Justification of Vedic Science

S ANAND
Regarding Ambedkar
A Review of Breaking the Spell of Dharma and Other Essays

RAVIKUMAR AND S ANAND

About the Author

DR MEERA NANDA is a teacher, researcher and philosopher of science currently working in US. Her forthcoming book is titled 'Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science' and 'The Making of Hindu Nationalism in India'.

She was trained as a biologist and has worked with the people's science movement and as a science correspondent in India.

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