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Author Bose, Sumantra, 1968- author.

Title Secular states, religious politics : India, Turkey, and the future of secularism / Sumantra Bose
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 380 pages)
Contents The discontents of secularism -- Paths to the secular state -- Paradoxes of the secular state -- India : the anti-secularist ascendancy -- Turkey : the anti-secularist triumph -- Secular and anti-secular authoritarianisms -- The futures of secularism
Summary Secular States, Religious Politics is a pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states--where the constitutional identity and fundamental character of the state are not based on or derived from any religious faith--in the non-Western world. A few decades ago, the secular nature of the republics of India and Turkey was considered axiomatic. Not so any more. Alternative, anti-secular visions of nationhood have risen decisively from the political margins so centre-stage and won state power in both countries. The secular definition of nationhood has effectively been replaced by a Sunni-Islamist majoritarian definition in Turkey, where the secular state is dead in all but name. In India, majoritarian Hindu nationalism has emerged as by far the country's single largest political force, and the future of India's secular state is in the balance. This book explains the political transformations of India and Turkey with deep insight and exceptional clarity. It shows the similarity of the two non-Western secular states in not being based on a Western-style principle of separation of church and state, but rather on an operational doctrine of state intervention in and regulation of the religious sphere. At the same time, Bose highlights the very different motives behind the establishment of secular states in the two cases, and demonstrates that while state-secularism took a culturally deracinated and deeply authoritarian form in Turkey, it assumed a culturally rooted and democratic form in India. Bose is critical of the flaws of what he calls India's 'really existing' secular state, but argues that unlike the fatally flawed Turkish model, secularism retains relevance in the Indian context and is indispensable to its future as a democracy. In a lucid, accessible style, this book combines encyclopedic knowledge of the cases with a sophisticated comparative framework. Its subject, and argument, are extremely topical to the times we live in--back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 28, 2018)
Subject Secularism -- Political aspects -- India
Secularism -- Political aspects -- Turkey
Religion and politics -- India
Religion and politics -- Turkey
Hinduism and state -- India
Islam and state -- India
Islam and state -- Turkey
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Hinduism and state
Islam and state
Politics and government
Religion and politics
Secularism -- Political aspects
Säkularismus
Laizität
Religiosität
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 1977- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064946
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005202
Subject India
Turkey
Türkei
Indien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108611497
1108611494
9781108559461
1108559468