Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age

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ISBN: 0230621244
ISBN 13: 9780230621244
Herausgeber: L Cady/E Hurd
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: viii, 293 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Academic Relevance: The volume makes a major contribution to an ongoing and robust discussion on secularism that is emerging across a broad range of disciplines. While firmly situated in this emerging discourse, the volume is also distinctive in both its geographic and disciplinary rangeInterdisciplinary: The volume will be of interest to faculty and students across a range of disciplines in the social sciences (political science, sociology, anthropology) and the humanities (history, religious studies, philosophy, literary studies), because there is no book that focuses more systematically on four countries in global and comparative perspective. The book brings together empirical, analytic, and normative reflection that crosses disciplinary boundariesInternational Comparative Resource: By focusing on four country cases within a broader global dynamic, the volume will be of interest to the relevant country specialists and those interested in global politicsTheoretical and Constructive Contribution: The volume facilitates theoretical and normative reflections on how to advance more constructive ways of envisioning and enacting the interface of religion and secularism, and thus the essays will be of interest to both scholars and policy makers who seek to chart the future of the interfaces between religion and the secular

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Beschreibung

The history and politics of secularism and the public role of religion in France, India, Turkey, and the United States. It interprets the varieties of secularism as a series of evolving and contested processes of defining and remaking religion, rather than a static solution to the challenges posed by religious and political difference.

Autorenporträt

LINELL E. CADY is the Franca G. Oreffice Dean's Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, USA, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.   ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, USA.

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