Secular States Religious Politics
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Secular States Religious Politics
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Author : Sumantra Bose
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Secular States Religious Politics written by Sumantra Bose and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Political Science categories.
Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world
Questioning The Secular State
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Author : David Westerlund
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 1996
Questioning The Secular State written by David Westerlund and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
Should the state be secular or religious. Here the author seeks to determine the extent of the role of religion in political life.
Religious Politics And Secular States
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Author : Scott W. Hibbard
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Religious Politics And Secular States written by Scott W. Hibbard and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Political Science categories.
2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain so influential in the politics of these three ostensibly secular societies. The United States, Egypt, and India were quintessential models of secular modernity in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1980s and 1990s, conservative Islamists challenged the Egyptian government, India witnessed a surge in Hindu nationalism, and the Christian right in the United States rose to dominate the Republican Party and large swaths of the public discourse. Using a nuanced theoretical framework that emphasizes the interaction of religion and politics, Scott W. Hibbard argues that three interrelated issues led to this state of affairs. First, as an essential part of the construction of collective identities, religion serves as a basis for social solidarity and political mobilization. Second, in providing a moral framework, religion's traditional elements make it relevant to modern political life. Third, and most significant, in manipulating religion for political gain, political elites undermined the secular consensus of the modern state that had been in place since the end of World War II. Together, these factors sparked a new era of right-wing religious populism in the three nations. Although much has been written about the resurgence of religious politics, scholars have paid less attention to the role of state actors in promoting new visions of religion and society. Religious Politics and Secular States fills this gap by situating this trend within long-standing debates over the proper role of religion in public life.
The Secular State Under Siege
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Author : Christian Joppke
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-04-22
The Secular State Under Siege written by Christian Joppke and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with Social Science categories.
Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the return of public religion. This cogent analysis unravels the nature of the connection, disconnection, and attempted reconnection between religion and politics in the West. In a comparison of Western Europe and North America, Christianity and Islam, Joppke advances far-reaching theoretical, historical, and comparative-political arguments. With respect to theory, it is argued that only a “substantive” concept of religion, as pertaining to the existence of supra-human powers, opens up the possibility of a historical-comparative perspective on religion. At the level of history, secularization is shown to be the distinct outcome of Latin Christianity itself. And at the level of comparative politics, the Christian Right in America which has attacked the “wall of separation” between religion and state and Islam in Europe with the controversial insistence on sharia law and other “illiberal” claims from some quarters are taken to be counterpart incarnations of public religion and challenges to the secular state. This clearly argued, sweeping book will provide an invaluable framework for approaching an array of critical issues at the intersection of religion, law and politics for advanced students and researchers across the social sciences and legal studies, as well as for the interested public.
Secular States And Religious Diversity
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Author : Bruce J. Berman
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2013-10-25
Secular States And Religious Diversity written by Bruce J. Berman and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-25 with Religion categories.
Contemporary nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religious movements. "Secular States and Religious Diversity" explores the meaning of secularism and religious freedom in these new contexts. The contributors chart the impact of globalization, the varying forms of secularism in Western states, and the different kinds of relations between states and religious institutions in the historical traditions and contemporary politics of Islamic, Indic, and Chinese societies. They also examine the limitations and dilemmas of governmental responses to religious diversity, and grapple with the question of how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism. This volume brings in perspectives from the non-Western world and engages with viewpoints that might increase states' capacities to accommodate religious diversity positively.
Religious Politics Secular States
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Author : Scott W. Hibbard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Religious Politics Secular States written by Scott W. Hibbard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
State And Secularism
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Author : Michael S. H. Heng
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2010
State And Secularism written by Michael S. H. Heng and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Political Science categories.
The concept of a secular state is important in many parts of Asia and how this is resolved has important implications for The social, economic and political development of various Asian countries. Unfortunately, problems of the secular state have all along been studied based on the historical experience of state formation in Europe, with little (or no) input from the Asian perspective. This book will for The very first time, present mainly Asian perspectives, while drawing on Western experience as well. Conceptual issues are discussed together with detailed accounts on how different countries and traditions understand and seek to implement the ideas of a secular state.
Political Secularism Religion And The State
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Author : Jonathan Fox
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-27
Political Secularism Religion And The State written by Jonathan Fox and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-27 with Social Science categories.
This book examines how the competition between religious and secular forces influenced state religion policy between 1990 and 2008. While both sides were active, the religious side had considerably more success. The book examines how states supported religion as well as how they restricted it.
Secularism And State Policies Toward Religion
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Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-20
Secularism And State Policies Toward Religion written by Ahmet T. Kuru and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-20 with Social Science categories.
Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion, whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility, as seen in their bans on Muslim headscarves. In the United States, the dominant ideology is 'passive secularism', which requires the state to play a passive role, by allowing public visibility of religion. Dominant ideology in France and Turkey is 'assertive secularism', which demands that the state play an assertive role in excluding religion from the public sphere. Passive and assertive secularism became dominant in these cases through certain historical processes, particularly the presence or absence of an ancien régime based on the marriage between monarchy and hegemonic religion during state-building periods.
From Religious Empires To Secular States
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Author : Birol Başkan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-26
From Religious Empires To Secular States written by Birol Başkan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-26 with Political Science categories.
In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a unilinear, homogeneous and universal process, and has convincingly shown that secularization of the state has unfolded along different paths. Much, however, remains to be uncovered. This book provides an in-depth comparative historical analysis of state secularization in three major Eurasian countries: Turkey, Iran and Russia. To capture the aforementioned variation in state secularization across three countries that have been hitherto analyzed as separate studies, Birol Başkan adopts three modes of state secularization: accommodationism, separationism and eradicationism. Focusing thematically on the changing relations between the state and religious institutions, Başkan brings together a host of factors, historical, strategic and structural, to account for why Turkey adopted accommodationism, Iran separationism and Russia eradicationism. In doing so, he expertly demonstrates that each secularization strategy was a rational response to the strategic context the reformers found themselves in.