Secular States, Religious Politics - India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism

Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world

List 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.

About the author

Sumantra Bose is Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His many books include Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy (2013), Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (2007), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (2003), and Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (2002). Born and raised in Kolkata, India, Bose graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1992 and received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in New York in 1998.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sumantra Bose, Sumantra (London School of Economics and Pol Bose, Sumantra (London School of Economics and Political Science) Bose, BOSE SUMANTRA
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108472036
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47203-6
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Europe, Asia, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Religion & politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Religion and Politics, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State