Sumantra Bose

Secular States, Religious Politics

India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781108454865
• ISBN-10: 1108454860
• Artikelnr.: 52642742

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.