Author : Ẓahīr ʻAlī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Secularism
ISBN : 9350024160
Secularism Under Siege
Ẓahīr ʻAlī
Secularism Under Siege
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The Secular State Under Siege
Christian Joppke
Author : Christian Joppke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745691404
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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.
Lebanon
Mark Farha
Author : Mark Farha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108471459
Lebanon by Mark Farha Pdf
Chronicles secularism in Lebanon up to the present day, presenting possible causes for its decline in the face of sectarianism.
Under Siege
Don Hutchinson
Author : Don Hutchinson
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781486614530
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Writing from the perspective of a student of life, history, law, politics, and theology, Don Hutchinson draws on all of these areas in Under Siege to offer perceptive insight into the Christian Church of today’s Canada. The reader will receive the benefit of his thirty years of church leadership, Christian witness, constitutional law, and public policy experience to gain a practical understanding of how we, the Church, may cast the deciding votes on the future of Christianity in our constitutionally guaranteed “free and democratic society.” How did we get here? What happened to “Christian” Canada? Do we not have Charter rights like everyone else? What does the Bible say? Many Christians sense that an advancing secularism is trying to force upon Canadians a culture in which faith is meant to be private. Hutchinson presents historic, legal, and theological grounds for us not to hide our faith in stained-glass closets, but instead to enter Canada’s contested public space with confidence. Together as individual Christians, congregations, denominations, and para-congregational ministries, we are the Church in Canada. And together we have the capacity to impact the nation for God’s good, the good of our neighbours, and the good of ourselves. Will we?
Hindus Under Siege
Subramanian Swamy
Author : Subramanian Swamy
Publisher : Har-Anand Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 812411207X
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Suggests that the siege against Hinduism today is visible in 4 dimensions - religious, psychological, physical and Cultural.
Secularism Under Siege
Zaheer Ali
Author : Zaheer Ali
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003830962
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This anthology makes a discerning attempt to bring into focus myriad dimensions of secularism and the foremost impediments to its attainment. The scholars who contributed to this volume have underscored that the disconnect between a modern-secular state and a conservative society is detrimental to recognizing an ideal secular-democratic polity. Then there is the burden of the past centuries that independent India has to carry on its young shoulders. The political factions in India invent their own historical narratives to advance their political agenda coupled with political and economic arguments leading to social dissensions and communal hatred, the ugliest manifestation of which is communal violence that occasionally takes on the form of anti-minority pogroms. The academic critiques of the concept of secularism and its correlated premises belted in this volume shall be of assistance not only to the scholars but also to the students of social sciences and the conscientious readers interested in knowing about the current socio-political milieu. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Science under Siege
Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Rudi Laermans
Author : Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Rudi Laermans
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030696480
Science under Siege by Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Rudi Laermans Pdf
Identifying scientism as religion’s secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universally binding truth claims, be they religiously or scientifically informed. Approaching the issue from a cultural-sociological perspective and building on theories from the sociology of religion, the volume unearths the cultural mechanisms that account for the headwind faced by contemporary science. The empirical contributions highlight how the field of academic science has lost much of its former authority vis-à-vis competing social realms; how political and religious worldviews define particular research findings as favorites while dismissing others; and how much of today’s distrust of science is directed against scientific institutions and academic scientists rather than against science per se.
Lebanon
Mark Farha
Author : Mark Farha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108458017
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Why has secularism faced such challenges in the Middle East and in Lebanon in particular? In light of dominating headlines about the spread of sectarianism and the so-called death of Arab secularism, Mark Farha addresses the need for a thorough examination of the history of secular thought and practice in the region. By offering a comprehensive, systematic account of the underlying ideological, socio-economic, and political factors involved, Farha provides a new understanding of the historical roots of secularism as well as the potential causes for the continued resistance a fully deconfessionalized state faces both in Lebanon and in the region at large. Drawing on a vast corpus of primary and secondary sources to examine the varying political parties and ideologies involved, this book provides a fresh approach to the study of religion and politics in the Arab world and beyond.
In Times of Siege
Githa Hariharan
Author : Githa Hariharan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143066218
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Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Saba Mahmood
Author : Saba Mahmood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691153285
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How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.
Inventing Secularism
Ray Argyle
Author : Ray Argyle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476642291
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Jailed for atheism and disowned by his family, George Jacob Holyoake came out of an English prison at the age of 25 determined to bring an end to religion's control over daily life. This first modern biography of the founder of Secularism describes a transformative figure whose controversial and conflict-filled life helped shape the modern world. Ever on the front lines of social reform, Holyoake was hailed for having won "the freedoms we take for granted today." With Secularism now under siege, George Holyoake's vision of a "virtuous society" rings today with renewed clarity.
Pakistan Under Siege
Madiha Afzal
Author : Madiha Afzal
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815729464
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Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror. But are ordinary Pakistanis extremists? And what explains how Pakistanis think? Much of the current work on extremism in Pakistan tends to study extremist trends in the country from a detached position—a top-down security perspective, that renders a one-dimensional picture of what is at its heart a complex, richly textured country of 200 million people. In this book, using rigorous analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews in schools and universities in Pakistan, historical narrative reporting, and her own intuitive understanding of the country, Madiha Afzal gives the full picture of Pakistan’s relationship with extremism. The author lays out Pakistanis’ own views on terrorist groups, on jihad, on religious minorities and non-Muslims, on America, and on their place in the world. The views are not radical at first glance, but are riddled with conspiracy theories. Afzal explains how the two pillars that define the Pakistani state—Islam and a paranoia about India—have led to a regressive form of Islamization in Pakistan’s narratives, laws, and curricula. These, in turn, have shaped its citizens’ attitudes. Afzal traces this outlook to Pakistan’s unique and tortured birth. She examines the rhetoric and the strategic actions of three actors in Pakistani politics—the military, the civilian governments, and the Islamist parties—and their relationships with militant groups. She shows how regressive Pakistani laws instituted in the 1980s worsened citizen attitudes and led to vigilante and mob violence. The author also explains that the educational regime has become a vital element in shaping citizens’ thinking. How many years one attends school, whether the school is public, private, or a madrassa, and what curricula is followed all affect Pakistanis’ attitudes about terrorism and the rest of the world. In the end, Afzal suggests how this beleaguered nation—one with seemingly insurmountable problems in governance and education—can change course.
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
Robert A. Orsi
Author : Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521883917
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies by Robert A. Orsi Pdf
Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.
Secularism Under Siege
Anwarul Haque Haqqi
Author : Anwarul Haque Haqqi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Ayodhya (Faizabad, India)
ISBN : UOM:39015034437395
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Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity
Anna Triandafyllidou,Tina Magazzini
Author : Anna Triandafyllidou,Tina Magazzini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000260410
Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity by Anna Triandafyllidou,Tina Magazzini Pdf
This book critically reviews state-religion models and the ways in which different countries manage religious diversity, illuminating different responses to the challenges encountered in accommodating both majorities and minorities. The country cases encompass eight world regions and 23 countries, offering a wealth of research material suitable to support comparative research. Each case is analysed in depth looking at historical trends, current practices, policies, legal norms and institutions. By looking into state-religion relations and governance of religious diversity in regions beyond Europe, we gain insights into predominantly Muslim countries (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia), countries with pronounced historical religious diversity (India and Lebanon) and into a predominantly migrant pluralist nation (Australia). These insights can provide a basis for re-thinking European models and learning from experiences of governing religious diversity in other socio-economic and geopolitical contexts. Key analytical and comparative reflections inform the introduction and concluding chapters. This volume offers a research and study companion to better understand the connection between state-religion relations and the governance of religious diversity in order to inform both policy and research efforts in accommodating religious diversity. Given its accessible language and further readings provided in each chapter, the volume is ideally suited for undergraduate and graduate students. It will also be a valuable resource for researchers working in the wider field of ethnic, migration, religion and citizenship studies.