RT Book
T1 Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives
T2 AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Ser.
A1 Berg-Sørensen, Anders
A2 Catto, Rebecca
A2 Woodhead, Professor
LA English
PP Farnham
PB Routledge
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1688550453
AB 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 policy-makers, as well as for scholars and students in political science, law, sociology and religious studies.
AB Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Contesting Secularism -- Part I Secularism: General Lines -- 1 Multiple Secularisms and Multiple Secular States -- 2 Priority for Liberal Democracy or Secularism? -- 3 Muslims, Religious Equality and Secularism -- 4 The Post-Secular Turn in Feminism -- Part II Secularism: Illustrations -- 5 Secularism, Constitutionalism and the Rise of Christian Conservatives in the US -- 6 Neither Religious nor Secular -- 7 The Indeterminacy of Laïcité: Secularism and the State in France -- 8 Contested Secularism in Turkey and Iran -- 9 Secularism, Popular Passion and Public Order in India -- Index.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
SN 9781409457411
K1 Religion And Politics
K1 Secularism
K1 Electronic books