Disenchanting India
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India’s Growing Skeptic Movement
TRACIE HARRIS
Tracie Harris’s “India’s Growing Skeptic Movement,” first published in the Atheist Community of Austin’s newsletter in December 2008, is reproduced here as an important archival document on India’s rationalist movements. Cited in Johannes Quack’s Disenchanting India, it offers a valuable outsider’s snapshot of Indian skepticism and of Bangalore Skeptic, this website’s forerunner.
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Disenchanting India
Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in IndiaPRABHAKAR NANAWATY
Johannes Quack’s Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India delivers a pioneering ethnographic study of modern Indian rationalism. Focusing on the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, Quack examines how activists challenge superstitions, expose fraudulent godmen, and promote the scientific temper, placing India’s rationalist movement within a broader transnational context.