Europe, India, and the limits of secularism

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roover, Jakob de, Author.

Series:

Religion and democracy.

Religion and democracy : reconceptualizing religion, culture, and politics in a global context Europe, India, and the limits of secularism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism--India.

Secularism.

Secularism--Europe.

Religious tolerance--India.

Religious tolerance.

Religious tolerance--Europe.

Religion and politics--India.

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them.

Contents:

Limits of liberal secularism

Stories of liberal secularism

The political theology of the two kingdoms

Liberty, tyranny, and the divine order

The enlightenment and the secular

Religious toleration in British India

Straitjackets of secularism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 18, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-908631-1