Secular States, Religious Politics
India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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A pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states - where the state's constitutional identity and fundamental character are not based on or derived from any religious faith - in the non-Western world. This book explains the origins, evolution and latterly the decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in India and Turkey. The anti-secular political transformations of the twenty-first century are the rise of a Sunni-Islamist definition of Turkish national identity to hegemonic power, and Hindu nationalism as India's pre-eminent political force. Both secular-state models adopted a similar operational doctrine of state intervention in and regulation of the religious sphere, rather than a Western-style separation of church and state. But, Turkish state-secularism took a culturally deracinated and harshly authoritarian form that led to its failure, whereas India's secular state - though flawed in practice - followed a culturally rooted and democratic path that makes secularism indispensable to India's future.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2018-05-03
- Mått153 x 227 x 24 mm
- Vikt500 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor388
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781108454865
