Secular States, Religious Politics : India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism PDF
by Sumantra Bose
Description
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.
Information
-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/05/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108611497
Information
-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/05/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108611497
