{"id":13884,"date":"2022-03-22T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/?post_type=publikation&#038;p=13884"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:51:38","slug":"postsecular-longings-religious-dissent-faith-and-gurus-in-indian-cinema","status":"publish","type":"publikation","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/publikation\/postsecular-longings-religious-dissent-faith-and-gurus-in-indian-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Postsecular Longings? Religious Dissent, Faith, and Gurus in Indian Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the figure of the \u2018Indian guru\u2019 has established itself as a source of spiritual knowledge in the West, it played a unique role in the construction of the secular image of post-independence India. Historically, gurus, fakirs, or monks were considered neither a threat to the construction of secular India, nor were they given a privileged treatment on the basis of their religious denomination. Such secular \u2018indifference\u2019, however, has been challenged by competing narratives of religious modernities in popular culture, particularly in Hindi Cinema. Drawing from three recent productions \u2013\u00a0<em>Oh My God<\/em>\u00a0(2012),\u00a0<em>PK<\/em>\u00a0(2014), and\u00a0<em>Dharam Sankat Mein<\/em>\u00a0(2015) \u2013 this article argues that the specific generic, cinematic, and narrative devices employed in these films gesture towards what Manav Ratti has identified as a \u2018postsecular\u2019 move in India, one that helps articulate the paradox of \u2018nonsecular secularism, a non-religious religion\u2019 wherein the figure of the guru serves as a\u00a0<em>tabula rasa<\/em>\u00a0of repressed secular anxieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malreddy, Pavan Kumar (2022): Postsecular Longings? Religious Dissent, Faith, and Gurus in Indian Cinema. In: Third Text, 36(2), S. 176-191.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":13885,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"publikation_cat":[98],"disciplines":[145,144],"series":[],"class_list":["post-13884","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publikation_cat-zeitschriftenartikel","disciplines-medienwissenschaft","disciplines-religionswissenschaften"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/13884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikation"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publikation_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation_cat?post=13884"},{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=13884"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}