Communal Threat, Secular Challenge
Author: K. N.. Panikkar
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9788186945032
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Author: K. N.. Panikkar
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9788186945032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith reference to India's political condition in contemporary history.
Author: K. N. Panikkar
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith reference to India's political condition in contemporary history.
Author: K. N. Panikkar
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith reference to India's political condition in contemporary history.
Author: P. R. Ram
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Saba Mahmood
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0691153280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.
Author: Ram Puniyani
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9788178358611
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Author: Susanna Mancini
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0199660387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional models of constitutional secularism have struggled to accommodate the modern revival of religious politics. The concept has been criticised as empty or illegitimate, while political and legal struggles have contested its meaning. This book gathers leading experts to examine the scope and substance of constitutional secularism today.
Author: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007-01-18
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 0822388413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile secularism has been integral to India’s democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the precarious situation of India’s minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying of a significant proportion of the diasporic Hindu community behind a resurgent nationalist Hinduism. There is a broad consensus that a crisis of secularism exists, but whether the state can resolve conflicts and ease tensions or is itself part of the problem is a matter of vigorous political and intellectual debate. In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading Indian cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India. Scholars of history, anthropology, religion, politics, law, philosophy, and media studies take on a broad range of concerns. Some consider the history of secularism in India; others explore theoretical issues such as the relationship between secularism and democracy or the shortcomings of the categories “majority” and “minority.” Contributors examine how the debates about secularism play out in schools, the media, and the popular cinema. And they address two of the most politically charged sites of crisis: personal law and the right to practice and encourage religious conversion. Together the essays inject insightful analysis into the fraught controversy about the shortcomings and uncertain future of secularism in the world today. Contributors. Flavia Agnes, Upendra Baxi, Shyam Benegal, Akeel Bilgrami, Partha Chatterjee, V. Geetha, Sunil Khilnani, Nivedita Menon, Ashis Nandy, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Gyanendra Pandey, Gyan Prakash, Arvind Rajagopal, Paula Richman, Sumit Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Shabnum Tejani, Romila Thapar, Ravi S. Vasudevan, Gauri Viswanathan
Author: Samuel Jayakumar
Publisher: OCMS
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781870345422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Hall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-01-11
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0230608922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on the constitutive politics of civilizational identity, examining the practices through which notions of civilizational identity are produced and reproduced in different contexts, including the global credit regime, modernity debates, and the "war on terrorism".