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Author : T. N. Srinivasan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X030114690
Chiefly with reference to India and also on Islam and secularism; papers presented at a seminar organized by the South Asian Studies Council, Yale University during March 26-27, 2004.
Author : Sumantra Bose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108472036
Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world
Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674033764
What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari‘a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na‘im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari‘a by the state betrays the Qur’an’s insistence on voluntary acceptance of Islam. Just as the state should be secure from the misuse of religious authority, Shari‘a should be freed from the control of the state. State policies or legislation must be based on civic reasons accessible to citizens of all religions. Showing that throughout the history of Islam, Islam and the state have normally been separate, An-Na‘im maintains that ideas of human rights and citizenship are more consistent with Islamic principles than with claims of a supposedly Islamic state to enforce Shari‘a. In fact, he suggests, the very idea of an “Islamic state” is based on European ideas of state and law, and not Shari‘a or the Islamic tradition. Bold, pragmatic, and deeply rooted in Islamic history and theology, Islam and the Secular State offers a workable future for the place of Shari‘a in Muslim societies.
Author : David T. Buckley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231542449
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America, religious actors coexist with, and even help to preserve, democracy. In Faithful to Secularism, David T. Buckley argues that political institutions that encourage an active role for public religion are a key part in explaining this variation. He develops the concept of "benevolent secularism" to describe institutions that combine a basic division of religion and state with extensive room for participation of religious actors in public life. He traces the impact of benevolent secularism on religious and secular elites, both at critical junctures in state formation and as politics evolves over time. Buckley shows how religious and secular actors build credibility and shared norms over time, and explains how such coalitions can endure challenges from both religious revivals and periods of anticlericalism. Faithful to Secularism tests this institutional theory in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines, using a blend of archival, interview, and public opinion data. These case studies illustrate how even countries with an active religious majority can become and remain faithful to secularism.
Author : Syed M. Al-Attas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788139738
A penetrating analysis of secularism & its impact on Muslim societies, this work argues forcefully for the "dewesternization" of knowledge & the adoption of Islamic philosophies of education & science as the basic tenets of future developments in the Muslim world. The author calls for a return to the early masters of the intellectual & religious tradition of Islam, based on the Holy Qur'an & the Prophetic Tradition, in order to learn more from the past & be able to equip spiritually & intellectually for the future. Index.
Author : Rodney Stark,William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520341340
Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions, they chart the full sweep of contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. This wealth of information is located within a coherent theoretical framework that examines religion as a social response to human needs, both the general needs shared by all and the desires specific to those who are denied the economic rewards or prestige enjoyed by the privileged. By explaining the forms taken by religions today, Stark and Bainbridge allow us to understand its persistence in a secular age and its prospects for the future,
Author : Gary J. Adler,Gary J. Jr Adler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190205430
How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age? What can the millennia-old Catholic tradition say to Church-state controversies in the United States and globally? This volume, sponsored by the inter-disciplinary Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, is a dialogue between Douglas W. Kmiec, a leading scholar of American constitutional law and Catholic legal thought, and experts from a range of fields and countries.
Author : Andrew Copson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 9780198809135
What is secularism? -- Secularism in Western societies -- Secularism diversifies -- The case for Secularism -- The case against Secularism -- Conceptions of Secularism -- Hard questions and new conflicts -- Afterword: the future of Secularism
Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674027760
What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari‘a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na‘im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari‘a by the state betrays the Qur’an’s insistence on voluntary acceptance of Islam. Just as the state should be secure from the misuse of religious authority, Shari‘a should be freed from the control of the state. State policies or legislation must be based on civic reasons accessible to citizens of all religions. Showing that throughout the history of Islam, Islam and the state have normally been separate, An-Na‘im maintains that ideas of human rights and citizenship are more consistent with Islamic principles than with claims of a supposedly Islamic state to enforce Shari‘a. In fact, he suggests, the very idea of an “Islamic state” is based on European ideas of state and law, and not Shari‘a or the Islamic tradition. Bold, pragmatic, and deeply rooted in Islamic history and theology, Islam and the Secular State offers a workable future for the place of Shari‘a in Muslim societies.
Author : David Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317031154
This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined simply to cover aberrant cases, as when the focus was more on America as an exception rather than on Europe as an exception to the 'furiously religious' character of the rest of the world. Particular themes of focus include the dialectic of Christianity and secularization, the relation of Christianity to multiple enlightenments and modes of modernity, the enigmas of East Germany and Eastern Europe, and the rise of the transnational religious voluntary association, including Pentecostalism, as that feeds into vast religious changes in the developing world. Doubts are cast on the idea that religion has ever been privatised and has lately reentered the public realm. The rest of the book deals with the relation of the Christian repertoire to the nexus of religion and politics, including democracy and violence and sharply criticises polemical assertions of a special relation of religion to violence, and explores the contributions of 'cognitive science' to the debate
Author : Ferdinand de Jong,José Mapril
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032021942
The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage as both legacy from the past and promise for the future. Drawing on case studies from across Europe, the volume addresses the intersection of three well-defined areas of research: secularism, religious heritage, and the question of renewal. Considering the heritagisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage, contributions to the book consider to what extent the idea of renewal, so pivotal to religious and secular ontologies, is present in heritage formations. Thinking about the temporalities of re-enactment and reconstruction, the volume examines whether heritage practices incorporate religious time into secular practice. Problematising such temporalities of the sacred in our post-secular age, the volume explores how these intersections of religious and secular time in heritage practices inform constructions of the future. The Future of Religious Heritage addresses the paradox of the secularisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage in a post-secular age. It will appeal to academics and students with an interest in critical heritage studies, religion, and (post)secularism, and will also be of interest to those studying re-enactment, regeneration and renewal.
Author : Muhammad Naguib Al-Attas (Syed.)
Publisher : Mansell
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015010462227
Author : Murat Akan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231543804
Discussions of modernity—or alternative and multiple modernities—often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe, which neglects the experience of much of the world, or emphasize a local, non-European context that limits the potential for comparison. In The Politics of Secularism, Murat Akan reframes the question of secularism, exploring its presence both outside and inside Europe and offering a rich empirical account of how it moves across borders and through time. Akan uses France and Turkey to analyze political actors' comparative discussions of secularism, struggles for power, and historical contextual constraints at potential moments of institutional change. France and Turkey are critical sites of secularism: France exemplifies European political modernity, and Turkey has long been the model of secularism in a Muslim-majority country. Akan analyzes prominent debates in both countries on topics such as the visibility of the headscarf and other religious symbols, religion courses in the public school curriculum, and state salaries for clerics and imams. Akan lays out the institutional struggles between three distinct political currents—anti-clericalism, liberalism, and what he terms state-civil religionism—detailing the nuances of how political movements articulate the boundary between the secular and the religious. Disputing the prevalent idea that diversity is a new challenge to secularism and focusing on comparison itself as part of the politics of secularism, this book makes a major contribution to understanding secular politics and its limits.
Author : Allen D. Hertzke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199930890
Based on a symposium held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Author : Anuradha Dingwaney Needham,Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0822338467
In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.
