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Communal Threat to Secular Democracy
Author | : Ram Puniyani |
Publsiher | : Gyan Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Communalism |
ISBN | : 8178358611 |
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Articles in Indian context.
Religion Secularism and Constitutional Democracy
Author | : Jean L. Cohen,Cécile Laborde |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780231540735 |
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Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.
Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
Author | : Jeremy Menchik |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-01-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107119147 |
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This book explains how the leaders of the world's largest Islamic organizations understand tolerance, explicating how politics works in a Muslim-majority democracy.
Religion in the New Europe
Author | : Krzysztof Michalski |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2006-03-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9786155053900 |
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The articles in this volume deal with the role of Christianity in the definition of European identity. Europeans often identify advanced civilizations with secularity. But religion is very much alive in other fast developing countries of the world. In Europe, nevertheless, the organized churches very much wanted to stress the Christian character of European identity, and this engendered a lively protest focusing on the perceived threat to the secular European tradition. Also, Europe is facing its greatest cultural challenge in the demand of Turkey to be admitted as a member, and in the demand of many Muslims in Europe, often citizens of the countries in which they live, to be recognized in their difference and at the same time integrated in the European national and supranational institutions.
Lives of Muslims in India
Author | : Abdul Shaban |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2018-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351227605 |
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The fast-consolidating identities along religious and ethnic lines in recent years have considerably ‘minoritised’ Muslims in India. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims, highlighting how, amidst a politics of violence, confusing policy frameworks on caste and class lines, and institutionalised riot systems, the community has also suffered from the lack of leadership from within. At the same time, Indian Muslims have emerged as a ‘mass’ around which the politics of ‘vote bank’, ‘appeasement’, ‘foreigners’, ‘Pakistanis within the country’, and so on are innovated and played upon, making them further apprehensive about asserting their legitimate right to development. The important issues of the double marginalisation of Muslim women and attempts to reform the Muslim Personal Law by some civil society groups is also discussed. Contributed by academics, activists and journalists, the articles discuss issues of integration, exclusion and violence, and attempt to understand categories such as ‘identity’, ‘minority’, ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘nationalism’ with regard to and in the context of Indian Muslims. This second edition, with a new introduction, will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in sociology, politics, history, cultural studies, minority studies, Islamic studies, policy studies and development studies, as well as policymakers, civil society activists and those in media and journalism.
Secular States and Religious Diversity
Author | : Bruce J. Berman,Rajeev Bhargava,André Laliberté |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013-10-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780774825153 |
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Nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religious movements. This book 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 unprecedented diversity, and grapple with the question of how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism.
Secularism and Its Critics
Author | : Rajeev Bhargava |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0195650271 |
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This book puts together the most important contemporary writings in the debate on secularism. It deals with conceptual, normative and explanatory issues in secularism and addresses urgent questions, including the relevance of secularism to non-Western societies and the question of minority rights.
At Home with Democracy
Author | : D.L. Sheth |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-12-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789811064128 |
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This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how ‘democracy’ can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection – a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system – and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses open to the system at any point in time. Against this backdrop, the book carefully analyzes the lifetime work of D.L. Sheth, which, seen as a whole, offers us with a theory of Indian politics. The selection of fifteen essays has been clustered into five sections that signify the major domains of democratic politics: State, Nation, Democracy; Parapolitics of Democracy; Social Power and Democracy; Representation in Liberal Democracy; and Emerging Challenges of Democracy. These essays give a sense of the transformations and struggles that are underway in India, brought about by the dynamics of democratic politics. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on one aspect, providing a unique analysis of the deepening of democracy in India.