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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 October 2018
      22 February 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108559461
      9781108472036
      9781108454865
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108559461
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 388 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 388 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociology of Religion, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sociology
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    Sociology of Religion, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sociology
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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.

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    'The book shows why secular politics consistently fails to deliver on its promises.'

    Nick Spencer Source: The Tablet

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