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Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism, Hardback Book

Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism Hardback

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For several decades now, commentators have sounded the alarm about the crisis of secularism.

Saving the secular state from political religion, they suggest, is a question of survival for societies characterized by religious diversity.

Yet it remains unclear what the crisis is all about.

This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism and toleration.

Rather than being neutral or non-religious, this is a secularized theological model with deep religious roots.

The limits of liberal secularism go back to its emergence from the dynamics and tensions of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

From the very beginning, it went hand in hand with its own mode of intolerance: an anticlerical theology that rejected Catholicism and Judaism as evil forms of political religion.

Later this framework produced the colonial descriptions of Hinduism (and its caste hierarchy) as a false and immoral religion.

Thus, secularism was presented as the only route forward for India.

Still, the secular state often harms local forms of living together and reinforces conflicts rather than resolving them.

Todays advocacy of secularism is not the outcome of reasonable reflection on the problems of Indian society but a manifestation of colonial consciousness.

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