Bose, Sumantra (2018) Secular states, religious politics: India, Turkey, and the future of secularism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781108454865
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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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/pol... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2018 14:22 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2024 02:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86735 |
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