Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789351485537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Towards Understanding Modern Religious and Secular Movements in India
Author: Modern Religious Movements in India
Author: John Nicol FarquharPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Modern Religious and Secular Movements in India
Author: Aleyamma ZachariahPublisher:
ISBN: 9788174750198
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Faithful to Secularism
Author: David T. BuckleyPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231542445
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America, religious actors coexist with, and even help to preserve, democracy. In Faithful to Secularism, David T. Buckley argues that political institutions that encourage an active role for public religion are a key part in explaining this variation. He develops the concept of "benevolent secularism" to describe institutions that combine a basic division of religion and state with extensive room for participation of religious actors in public life. He traces the impact of benevolent secularism on religious and secular elites, both at critical junctures in state formation and as politics evolves over time. Buckley shows how religious and secular actors build credibility and shared norms over time, and explains how such coalitions can endure challenges from both religious revivals and periods of anticlericalism. Faithful to Secularism tests this institutional theory in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines, using a blend of archival, interview, and public opinion data. These case studies illustrate how even countries with an active religious majority can become and remain faithful to secularism.
Secularism in India
Author: Domenic MarbaniangPublisher: Lulu Press, Inc
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
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.
Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective
Author: J. Christopher SoperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107189438
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.
The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular
Author: Robert Neil MinorPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791439913
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular presents an account of Auroville, a city in contemporary southeast India, and the vision of founder and well-known guru Sri Aurobindo. Auroville's eventual takeover and the promotion of its goals by the Indian government leads to a thought-provoking discussion of the meaning of "secularism" in India.
The Paradox of Liberation
Author: Michael WalzerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America’s foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks why these secular democratic movements have failed to sustain their hegemony: Why have they been unable to reproduce their political culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful establishment of secular politics in the early American republic—thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today.
Secular States, Religious Politics
Author: Sumantra BosePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world
India's Agony Over Religion
Author: Gerald James LarsonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143841014X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Many of ancient India's religious traditions are alive in modern India, and many of these religious traditions are in conflict with one another regarding the future of India. Even the so-called "secular state" is deeply pervaded by religious sentiments growing out of the Neo-Hindu nationalist movement of Gandhi and Nehru. A careful analysis of the current religious scene when placed in its proper long-term historical perspective raises interesting questions about the nature and future of religion not only in India but elsewhere as well.