The Making of Indian Secularism

The Making of Indian Secularism

Author: N. Chatterjee

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-01-26

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0230298087

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A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped its own identity and debated that of their new nation.


Divorcing Traditions

Divorcing Traditions

Author: Katherine Lemons

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1501734784

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Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism. Lemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication forums run by Muslim jurists or lay Muslims to show that religious law does not muddle the categories of religion and law but generates them. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted in these four institutions—NGO-run women's arbitration centers (mahila panchayats); sharia courts (dar ul-qazas); a Muslim jurist's authoritative legal opinions (fatwas); and the practice of what a Muslim legal expert (mufti) calls "spiritual healing"—Divorcing Traditions shows how secularism is an ongoing project that seeks to establish and maintain an appropriate relationship between religion and politics. A secular state is always secularizing. And yet, as Lemons demonstrates, the state is not the only arbiter of the relationship between religion and law: religious legal forums help to constitute the categories of private and public, religious and secular upon which secularism relies. In the end, because Muslim legal expertise and practice are central to the Indian legal system and because Muslim divorce's contested legal status marks a crisis of the secular distinction between religion and law, Muslim divorce, argues Lemons, is a key site for understanding Indian secularism.


Republic of Religion

Republic of Religion

Author: Abhinav Chandrachud

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2020-01-22

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9353057531

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How did India aspire to become a secular country? Given our colonial past, we derive many of our laws and institutions from England. We have a parliamentary democracy with a Westminster model of government. Our courts routinely use catchphrases like 'rule of law' or 'natural justice', which have their roots in London. However, during the period of colonial rule in India, and even thereafter, England was not a 'secular' country. The king or queen of England must mandatorily be a Protestant. The archbishop of Canterbury is still appointed by the government. Senior bishops still sit, by virtue of their office, in the House of Lords. Thought-provoking and impeccably argued, Republic of Religion reasons that the secular structure of the colonial state in India was imposed by a colonial power on a conquered people. It was an unnatural foreign imposition, perhaps one that was bound, in some measure, to come apart once colonialism ended, given colonial secularism's dubious origins.


Secularism

Secularism

Author: Andrew Copson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0198809131

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What is secularism? -- Secularism in Western societies -- Secularism diversifies -- The case for Secularism -- The case against Secularism -- Conceptions of Secularism -- Hard questions and new conflicts -- Afterword: the future of Secularism


The Crisis of Secularism in India

The Crisis of Secularism in India

Author: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2007-01-18

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780822338468

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In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.


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.


Secularism and Its Critics

Secularism and Its Critics

Author: Rajeev Bhargava

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9780195650273

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This book puts together the most important contemporary writings in the debate on secularism. It deals with conceptual, normative and explanatory issues in secularism and addresses urgent questions, including the relevance of secularism to non-Western societies and the question of minority rights.


Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment

Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment

Author: Akeel Bilgrami

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0674052048

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In a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as conflicting concepts in the modern world, Akeel Bilgrami elaborates a notion of secular enchantment with a view to finding in secular modernity a locus of meaning and value, while addressing squarely the anxiety that all such notions are exercises in nostalgia.


India as a Secular State

India as a Secular State

Author: Donald Eugene Smith

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 1400877784

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Throughout India's history, religion has been the most powerful single factor in the development of her civilization. Today, despite her religious tradition, India is emerging as a secular state. In this book, Donald E. Smith explores the origin of the concept of secularization as it is found both in Indian culture and in the example of the western nations. He emphasizes the important role of secularization in India’s total democratic experiment and points out that the degree of its realization will undoubtedly affect the eventual character of democracy in India. In addition, the success or failure of the secular state in India cannot fail to influence the attitudes of her neighbors. Professor Smith considers the many aspects and implications of India’s attempt to secularize her government. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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.