Learn · Literature, Religion, and the Secular: Cultural Perspectives for English Literary Studies through a Reading of Postsecular Theory
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Bodies and Freedoms: The Case of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis-II
Prof. Shuhita Bhattacharjee · IIT Hyderabad
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- Defining Postsecular Theory: The Basics
- The Salient Features of Postsecular Theory
- Defining Religion, Studying Religiosity: Disciplines and Thinkers
- Defining Religion, Studying Religiosity: John Caputo and Jacques Derrida
- Defining Religion, Studying Religiosity: Callum Brown, Charles Taylor
- Postcolonial Approaches to Postsecular Studies
- The Eighteenth-Century ‘Secular Turn’ and the Rise of the Novel: Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
- Nineteenth-Century ‘Crisis-of-Faith’: Scholarly Debates
- Science-Religion Hybridity and the Tensions of the Secular: Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds-I
- Awakening of Colonial Guilt and the Electric-Aesthetic Christianity: Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds-II
- Redefinitions of Pain and Ethical Commentary: Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds-III
- Religious Experience and the Victorian New Woman: The Case of Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage -I
- Gendering of Religious Doubt and Experiences of Suffering: Questioning assumptions through the New Woman Novels-II
- Female Agency, Spiritual Suffering, and Debates of Empowerment: The Victorian New Woman and Cholmondeley’s Representations-III
- Foreign Faiths, Fears Familiar: Novels of Colonial India and Alternative Religiosities-I
- British Domestic Religious Anxieties and Representations in Novels of Colonial India-II
- The Question of ‘Simplicity’ in Religious Experience: Debates in Novels of Colonial India-III
- Theosophical Fiction as a Genre: [Lecture-I by Dr. Shaona Barik]
- Mesmeric Fiction: Nuanced Perspectives [Lecture-II by Dr. Shaona Barik]
- Cosmic Horror and Christianity [Lecture-I by Dr. Dibyakusum Ray]
- Cosmic Horror and Christianity-II [Lecture-II by Dr. Dibyakusum Ray]
- Ecocentric Perspectives in Village Hinduism [Lecture-III by Dr. Dibyakusum Ray]
- Automatons and Religious Alterity: The Case of Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon and F. Anstey’s A Fallen Idol-I
- The Conscious Automaton Theory and Fears of Volition: The Case of Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon and F. Anstey’s A Fallen Idol -II
- Miracle Devices and Contemporary Fears: The Case of Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon and F. Anstey’s A Fallen Idol-III
- Theosophical Mahatmas and British Chelas: The Case of F. Anstey’s A Fallen Idol and Richard Marsh’s The Mahatma’s Pupil-I
- Electromagnetic Networks in Theosophy and Technology: The Case of F. Anstey’s A Fallen Idol and Richard Marsh’s The Mahatma’s Pupil-II
- Staging Global Harmony: Mohsin Hamid and Mira Nair- Part I
- Staging Global Harmony: Mohsin Hamid and Mira Nair- Part II
- Cultural Tropes: The ‘Veil’ in Popular Culture and Scholarship
- Critiques of Postsecular Theory-I
- Critiques of Postsecular Theory-II
- Afterlives of the Victorian Supernatural and Contemporary Debates: Realms of Justice and Figures of Faith in the Cinema of Anushka Sharma-I
- Afterlives of the Victorian Supernatural and Contemporary Debates: Realms of Justice and Figures of Faith in the Cinema of Anushka Sharma-II
- Revisiting Rebellion and Liberal Agency: The Case of Satrapi’s Persepolis-I
- Bodies and Freedoms: The Case of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis-II
- Dilemmas of Belonging and the Way Forward: The Case of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis-III
- Closing Discussion