Publication: Magic is science: Atheist conjuring and the exposure of superstition in South India
Magic is science: Atheist conjuring and the exposure of superstition in South India
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Binder, S. (2019). Magic is science: Atheist conjuring and the exposure of superstition in South India. HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 9(2), 284–298. https://doi.org/10.1086/705467
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This article examines so-called Miracle Exposure Programs conducted by Atheist activists in South India as a performance of secular difference. It retraces how activists use the sociopsychological properties of conjuring for performing an Atheist epistemology of the production, maintenance, and eradication of “superstition.” In debunking miracles as magic tricks, Atheist conjurers consistently emphasize the importance of immoral social relationships and abuses of differential knowledge rather than questions of ontology. In contrast to
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Binder, S. (2019). Magic is science: Atheist conjuring and the exposure of superstition in South India. HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 9(2), 284–298. https://doi.org/10.1086/705467
