Secularism In Comparative Perspective

Author : Jonathan Laurence
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031133107

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This book confronts the key questions surrounding comparative secularism in historical perspective. The contributions critically consider the normative ideas and alternative political arrangements that govern religion’s relation to politics and to the public and private spheres. Containing contributions by world-renowned scholars such as Michael Walzer, Asma Afsaruddin and Sudipta Kaviraj, this book recounts the arguments, debates, and disputations regarding secular arguments for accommodating religion. It does so in both critical and appreciative ways and describes some of the outcomes in actually existing institutions, policies, and practical arrangements. With the addition of many non-Western experiences and viewpoints on how secularism is theorized and lived, politically and historically and from Europe and Asia to Africa and the Americas, this volume is of great value political philosophers across the globe.

Author : Dr Anders Berg-Sørensen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472404534

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Contesting Secularism by Dr Anders Berg-Sørensen Pdf

As we enter the twenty-first century, the role of religion within civic society has become an issue of central concern across the world. The complex trends of secularism, multiculturalism and the rise of religiously motivated violence raise fundamental questions about the relationship between political institutions, civic culture and religious groups. Contesting Secularism represents a major intervention into this debate. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars from across the world it analyses how secularism functions as a political doctrine in different national contexts put under pressure by globalisation. In doing so it presents different models for the relationship between political institutions and religious groups, challenging the reader to be more aware of assumptions within their own cultural context, and raises alternative possibilities for the structure of democratic, multi-faith societies. Through its inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, Contesting Secularism sets a new agenda for thinking about the place of religion in the public sphere of twenty-first century societies. It is essential reading for policymakers, as well as for scholars and students in political science, law, sociology and religious studies.

Author : Anders Berg-Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317160243

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Contesting Secularism by Anders Berg-Sorensen Pdf

As we enter the twenty-first century, the role of religion within civic society has become an issue of central concern across the world. The complex trends of secularism, multiculturalism and the rise of religiously motivated violence raise fundamental questions about the relationship between political institutions, civic culture and religious groups. Contesting Secularism represents a major intervention into this debate. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars from across the world it analyses how secularism functions as a political doctrine in different national contexts put under pressure by globalisation. In doing so it presents different models for the relationship between political institutions and religious groups, challenging the reader to be more aware of assumptions within their own cultural context, and raises alternative possibilities for the structure of democratic, multi-faith societies. Through its inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, Contesting Secularism sets a new agenda for thinking about the place of religion in the public sphere of twenty-first century societies. It is essential reading for policymakers, as well as for scholars and students in political science, law, sociology and religious studies.

Author : José Mapril,Ruy Blanes,Emerson Giumbelli,Erin K. Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319437262

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Secularisms in a Postsecular Age? by José Mapril,Ruy Blanes,Emerson Giumbelli,Erin K. Wilson Pdf

This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression. Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another.

Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521517805

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Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion by Ahmet T. Kuru Pdf

Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.

Author : L. Cady,E. Hurd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230106703

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Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age by L. Cady,E. Hurd Pdf

The history and politics of secularism and the public role of religion in France, India, Turkey, and the United States. It interprets the varieties of secularism as a series of evolving and contested processes of defining and remaking religion, rather than a static solution to the challenges posed by religious and political difference.

Author : Jocelyne Cesari,José Casanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198788553

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Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective by Jocelyne Cesari,José Casanova Pdf

The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western commentators, the question of Women Rights is the litmus test for Muslim societies in the age of democracy and liberalism. Especially since the Arab Awakening, the issue is usually framed as the opposition between liberal advocates of secular democracy and religious opponents of women's full equality. Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective critically re-engages this too simple binary opposition by reframing the debate around Islam and women's rights within a broader comparative literature. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, it examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part One addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part Two localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part One. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women's rights in minority conditions to shed light on the gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder on the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

Author : José Casanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191092862

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Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective by José Casanova Pdf

The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western commentators, the question of Women Rights is the litmus test for Muslim societies in the age of democracy and liberalism. Especially since the Arab Awakening, the issue is usually framed as the opposition between liberal advocates of secular democracy and religious opponents of women's full equality. Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective critically re-engages this too simple binary opposition by reframing the debate around Islam and women's rights within a broader comparative literature. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, it examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part One addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part Two localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part One. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women's rights in minority conditions to shed light on the gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder on the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

Author : P. Mattei,A. Aguilar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137316080

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Secular Institutions, Islam and Education Policy by P. Mattei,A. Aguilar Pdf

Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe? This book explores how French society is divided along conflicts about religion, increasingly visible in public schools, and shows the effect that this has had.

Author : Christian Joppke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745691404

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The Secular State Under Siege by Christian Joppke Pdf

Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the return of public religion. This cogent analysis unravels the nature of the connection, disconnection, and attempted reconnection between religion and politics in the West. In a comparison of Western Europe and North America, Christianity and Islam, Joppke advances far-reaching theoretical, historical, and comparative-political arguments. With respect to theory, it is argued that only a “substantive” concept of religion, as pertaining to the existence of supra-human powers, opens up the possibility of a historical-comparative perspective on religion. At the level of history, secularization is shown to be the distinct outcome of Latin Christianity itself. And at the level of comparative politics, the Christian Right in America which has attacked the “wall of separation” between religion and state and Islam in Europe with the controversial insistence on sharia law and other “illiberal” claims from some quarters are taken to be counterpart incarnations of public religion and challenges to the secular state. This clearly argued, sweeping book will provide an invaluable framework for approaching an array of critical issues at the intersection of religion, law and politics for advanced students and researchers across the social sciences and legal studies, as well as for the interested public.

Author : R. Ramazani,Robert Fatton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230617865

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Religion, State, and Society by R. Ramazani,Robert Fatton Pdf

The book examines the relationship between religion and state in a comparative perspective with special attention paid to Western and Middle-Eastern experiences. It examines the resurgence of 'fundamentalism' not only in developing nations but also in economically affluent 'post-modern' societies.

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:837767328

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Defining Secularization by Bryan S. Turner Pdf

Author : Anders Berg-Sørensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion and politics
ISBN : 1315574039

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Contesting Secularism by Anders Berg-Sørensen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1137562846

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Secular institutions, Islam and education policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anders Berg-Sorensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1350267728

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Contesting Secularism by Anders Berg-Sorensen Pdf