
Secular States, Religious Politics
India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism
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- Author: Sumantra Bose, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Date Published: May 2018
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- isbn: 9781108454865
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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.
Read more- The first-ever comparative study of the Indian and Turkish secular states
- Essential for understanding the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, and the consolidation of the Erdogan regime in Turkey
- Lucidly written, accessible across disciplines and categories of readers
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'The book shows why secular politics consistently fails to deliver on its promises.' Nick Spencer, The Tablet
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- Date Published: May 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108454865
- length: 388 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 153 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The discontents of secularism
2. Paths to the secular state
3. Paradoxes of the secular state
4. India: the anti-secularist ascendancy
5. Turkey: the anti-secularist triumph
6. Secular and anti-secular authoritarianisms: i. The case of Kemalism ii. The case of Hindu-nationalism
7. The futures of secularism
Bibliography
Index.
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