SECULAR STATES,RELIGIOUS POLITICS : India, Turkey, and the future of secularism Sumantra Bose.
Language: English Publication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2018/01/01Edition: 1Description: 280ISBN:- 9781108472036 (hardback)
- 9781108454865 (papaerback)
- Relation of state to organized groups, Political Secularism
- Secularism
- Religion and politics
- Religion and politics
- Hinduism and state
- Islam and state
- Islam and state
- -- Political aspects -- India
- -- Political aspects -- Turkey
- -- India
- -- Turkey
- -- India
- -- India
- -- Turkey
- India -- Politics and government -- 1977-
- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980-
- 322.10954 SUM/SE
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A pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states - where the state's constitutional identity and fundamental character are not based on or derived from any religious faith - in the non-Western world. This book explains the origins, evolution and latterly the decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in India and Turkey. The anti-secular political transformations of the twenty-first century are the rise of a Sunni-Islamist definition of Turkish national identity to hegemonic power, and Hindu nationalism as India's pre-eminent political force. Both secular-state models adopted a similar operational doctrine of state intervention in and regulation of the religious sphere, rather than a Western-style separation of church and state. But, Turkish state-secularism took a culturally deracinated and harshly authoritarian form that led to its failure, whereas India's secular state - though flawed in practice - followed a culturally rooted and democratic path that makes secularism indispensable to India's future.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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