| Author | : Anuradha Dingwaney Needham |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2007-01-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780822338468 |
In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.
| Author | : Donald Eugene Smith |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 539 |
| Release | : 2015-12-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1400877784 |
Throughout India's history, religion has been the most powerful single factor in the development of her civilization. Today, despite her religious tradition, India is emerging as a secular state. In this book, Donald E. Smith explores the origin of the concept of secularization as it is found both in Indian culture and in the example of the western nations. He emphasizes the important role of secularization in India’s total democratic experiment and points out that the degree of its realization will undoubtedly affect the eventual character of democracy in India. In addition, the success or failure of the secular state in India cannot fail to influence the attitudes of her neighbors. Professor Smith considers the many aspects and implications of India’s attempt to secularize her government. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
| Author | : Jakob de Roover |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780199460977 |
Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them.
| Author | : Shabnum Tejani |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2021-01-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253058325 |
Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism. Shabnum Tejani unpacks prevailing assumptions about the meaning of secularism in contemporary politics, focusing on India but with many points of comparison elsewhere in the world. She questions the simple dichotomy between secularism and communalism that has been used in scholarly study and political discourse. Tracing the social, political, and intellectual genealogies of the concepts of secularism and communalism from the late nineteenth century until the ratification of the Indian constitution in 1950, she shows how secularism came to be bound up with ideas about nationalism and national identity.
| Author | : Domenic Marbaniang |
| Publisher | : Lulu Press, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Historical account of the origin of Secularism and its development in India. This book was originally the MPhil thesis of the writer submitted to ACTS Academy in 2005.
| Author | : Maha Yahya |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2012-05-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0472028138 |
Over the past two decades secular polities across the globe have witnessed an increasing turn to religion-based political movements, such as the rise of political Islam and Hindu nationalism, which have been fueling new and alternative notions of nationhood and national ideologies. The rise of such movements has initiated widespread debates over the meaning, efficacy, and normative worth of secularism. Visualizing Secularism and Religion examines the constitutive role of religion in the formation of secular-national public spheres in the Middle East and South Asia, arguing that in order to establish secularism as the dominant national ideology of countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, and India, the discourses, practices, and institutions of secular nation-building include rather than exclude religion as a presence within the public sphere. The contributors examine three fields---urban space and architecture, media, and public rituals such as parades, processions, and commemorative festivals---with a view to exploring how the relation between secularism, religion, and nationalism is displayed and performed. This approach demands a reconceptualization of secularism as an array of contextually specific practices, ideologies, subjectivities, and "performances" rather than as simply an abstract legal bundle of rights and policies.
| Author | : Sumantra Bose |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2018-05-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108472036 |
Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world
| Author | : Abhinav Chandrachud |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2020-01-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9353057531 |
How did India aspire to become a secular country? Given our colonial past, we derive many of our laws and institutions from England. We have a parliamentary democracy with a Westminster model of government. Our courts routinely use catchphrases like 'rule of law' or 'natural justice', which have their roots in London. However, during the period of colonial rule in India, and even thereafter, England was not a 'secular' country. The king or queen of England must mandatorily be a Protestant. The archbishop of Canterbury is still appointed by the government. Senior bishops still sit, by virtue of their office, in the House of Lords. Thought-provoking and impeccably argued, Republic of Religion reasons that the secular structure of the colonial state in India was imposed by a colonial power on a conquered people. It was an unnatural foreign imposition, perhaps one that was bound, in some measure, to come apart once colonialism ended, given colonial secularism's dubious origins.
| Author | : J. Christopher Soper |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107189438 |
Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.
