Secular states, religious politics : India, Turkey, and the future of secularism

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Secular states, religious politics : India, Turkey, and the future of secularism

Sumantra Bose

Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-369) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. The discontents of secularism
  • 2. Paths to the secular state
  • 3. Paradoxes of the secular state
  • 4. India: the anti-secularist ascendancy
  • 5. Turkey: the anti-secularist triumph
  • 6. Secular and anti-secular authoritarianisms: i. The case of Kemalism ii. The case of Hindu-nationalism
  • 7. The futures of secularism
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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