UID:
almahu_9948004017402882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 380 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108559461 (ebook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2018).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108472036
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108559461
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