Secularism, Religion, and Politics

India and Europe
Herausgeber: Herck, Walter Van; Losonczi, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights the relationship between the state and religion in India and Europe. It problematizes the idea of secularism and questions received ideas about secularism. It also looks at how Europe and India can learn from each other about negotiating religious space and identity in this globalised post-9/11 world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781138796003
• ISBN-10: 113879600X
• Artikelnr.: 40546295

Autorenporträt

Peter Losonczi is Associate Researcher, Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture, Belgium. Walter Van Herck is Associate Professor, University of Antwerp, Department of Philosophy, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Winand M Callewaert. Introduction Péter Losonczi and Walter Van
Herck. Part I: Secularism: Conceptualising Contexts: The Secularism and
Post-Secularism Debates in India and Europe. 1. Secularism: The Life and
Times of a Difficult Concept Neera Chandhoke. 2. Contextualizing
Secularism: The Relationship between State and Religion in India Gurpreet
Mahajan 3. Beyond Moderate Secularism Rajeev Bhargava 4. Secularism in
Plural Post-colonial Democracies: Is Liberal Toleration Enough? Valentina
Gentile 5. Religion, Pluralism, Politics: Case for an Inter-Contextual
Study on Europe and India Péter Losonczi Part II: Contextualising Concepts:
Between Secularism and Democracy in Europe, India, and Beyond 6. Religious
Political Parties in Europe and India Veit Bader 7. Secular Pluralism in
India: Lessons for Europe? Eva Pföstl 8. Secularism and the Spirit of
Capitalism Torkel Brekke 9. Sri Lankan Postcoloniality, Secular Time,
Future of Democracy Ananda Abeysekara 10. Shaping Secularism through the
Judiciary in Nepal: Case Studies from the Kathmandu Supreme Court Chiara
Letizia