Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective

Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective

Author: J. Christopher Soper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1107189438

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Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.


Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist

Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist

Author: Mani Shankar Aiyar

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780143062059

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In Confessions Of A Secular Fundamentalist, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Crusader For A Secular Credo, Calls For An Unambiguous And Decisive Restoration Of Secularism To The Core Of Our Nationhood. In Doing So, He Revisits Every Dimension Of Our Secular Ethos And Exposes The Various Myths Perpetuated By Communal Elements Of All Hues. Putting Under The Scanner Contentious Issues Like Conversions, Uniform Civil Code And Article 370, He Nails The Falsehood Underlying Terms Like Pseudo-Secularism , Appeasement And Soft Hindutva . And He Places The Domestic Debate Over Secularism In India In The Wider External Dimension By Discussing The Experiences Of Countries Like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Israel And Erstwhile Yugoslavia. Admitting To Wearing His Secularism On His Sleeve, Aiyar Reasons That Only A Determined And Inflexible Adherence To Secularism Can Counter Religious Bigotry And Fundamentalism. Clear In His Convictions, With History, Logic And Persuasive Argument At His Command, This Is Mani Shankar Aiyar At His Best, On A Subject That We Can Ignore Only At Our Own Peril.


Indian Secularism

Indian Secularism

Author: Shabnum Tejani

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0253058325

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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.


Religion and Modernity in India

Religion and Modernity in India

Author: Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199467785

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Quatrième de couverture: "Through a series of case studies taken from everyday experiences of people following a variety of religions, this book interrogates the supposed epistemological dualism between modernity and religion in India. Through a study of oral and textual traditions, examining the perspectives of women and other marginal social and regional groups, as well as the diaspora, it presents dynamically interacting textures of society-historically and in our contemporary times-engaging with modernity in divergent ways"


Secularism in India

Secularism in India

Author: Domenic Marbaniang

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc

Published:

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13:

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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.


Prospects for Peace in South Asia

Prospects for Peace in South Asia

Author: Rafiq Dossani

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780804750851

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Dossani's book addresses the largely hostile, often violent relations between India and Pakistan that date from their independence in 1947.