@article{ref1,
title="Secularizing Religion: Hindu Extremism as a Modernist Discourse",
journal="International political sociology",
year="2009",
author="Devare, Aparna",
volume="3",
number="2",
pages="156-175",
abstract="In this article, I suggest that Hindu nationalism, like many other religious extremist ideologies, is a modern discourse rooted in modern categories such as a homogenous national identity, objective science and history, hyper-masculinity, and secularism. To demonstrate the above claims, I undertake a close analysis of the writings of V.D. Savarkar, a key founder of “Hindutva” or Hindu nationalism. I show how he retools Hinduism by removing all aspects of religiosity/piety while replacing it with a primarily political-secular identity that places an exclusive Hindu nation at the center.<p />",
language="",
issn="1749-5679",
doi="10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00069.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00069.x"
}