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Title Confronting secularism in Europe and India : legitimacy and disenchantment in contemporary times / edited by Brian Black, Gavin Hyman, Graham M. Smith
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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Contents Confronting Secularism in Europe and India: An Introduction (Brian Black, University of Lancaster, UK) -- Part I: Political Secularism -- 1. Reframing Secularism: Religion, Nation and Minorities in India (Rochana Bajpai, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK) -- 2. Should Europe Learn from Indian Secularism? (Bhargava Rajeev, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, India) -- Part II: Secularism and Religion -- 3. Understanding Secularism by Means of Genealogy (Gavin Hyman, University of Lancaster, UK) -- 4. The Political Theology of Indian Christian Citizenship: An Instance of Secularism as Culture (Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter, UK) -- Part III: Secularism, Religion and Violence -- 5. Secularism, Agonism and the Politics of Conviction (Mark Wenman, University of Nottingham, UK) -- 6. Secularism, History and Violence in India (Deborah Sutton, University of Lancaster, UK) -- Part IV: Beyond Secularism? -- 7. Confronting the Confrontation: Europe beyond Secularism? (Evert van der Zweerde, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands) -- 8. Secularization beyond Western Eyes (Vincent Pecora, University of Utah, USA) -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Can secularism continue to provide a foundation for political legitimacy? It is often claimed that one of the cultural achievements of the West has been its establishment of secular democracy, wherein religious belief is respected but confined to the sphere of private belief. In more recent times, however, political secularism has been increasingly called into question. Religious believers, in numerous traditions, have protested against the distortion and confinement that secularism imposes on their faith. Others have become uneasily aware of the way in which secularism no longer commands universal assent in the way it once did. Confronting Secularism in Europe and India adds to this debate by staging a creative encounter between European and Indian conceptions of secularism with a view to continuing new and distinctive trajectories of thought about the place and role of secularism in contemporary times. Looking at political secularism, the relationship between secularism and religion, and religious and secular violence, this book considers whether there are viable alternatives to secularism in Europe and in India"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Secularism -- Europe
Secularism -- India
Religion and politics -- Europe
Religion and politics -- India
Sociology & anthropology.
Religion & politics.
Aspects of religion (non-Christian)
RELIGION -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State.
RELIGION -- Agnosticism.
Religion and politics
Secularism
Europe
India
Form Electronic book
Author Black, Brian, 1970-
Hyman, Gavin, 1974-
ISBN 9781780936079
1780936079
1306818982
9781306818988
9781472552501
1472552504
9781780937311
1780937318