Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia

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Beskrivning

What is the relationship between secularization and tolerance? Critically analyzing the empirical and theoretical foundations of a putatively linear relationship between the two, this volume argues for moving past both romanticised readings of pre-modern tolerance and the unthinking belief that secularization will inevitably lead to tolerance. The essays collected in this volume include contributions from across South Asia that suggest that democratic politics have added a layer of complexity to questions of peaceful co-existence. Modern transformations in religious thought and practice have had contradictory implications for tolerance, which offer rich insights into contemporary debates in the region. This multi-disciplinary volume, which spans history, sociology, anthropology and political theory, questions the uncritical acceptance of tolerance as the best framework for engaging with difference, and probes the complications created by and through democratic politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2018-07-19
Mått: 155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt: 510 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 224
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108428545

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Asiens historia

Mer om författaren

Humeira Iqtidar is the author of Secularizing Islamists? Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Urban Pakistan (2011) and led the ERC-funded project, 'Tolerance In Contemporary Muslim Polities: Political Theory Beyond the West'. Tanika Sarkar is author, among other books, of Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, Cultural Nationalism (2002) and Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times (2009). Her research lies at the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in colonial and post-colonial India.

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'This volume provides a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of secularism as an ideal and an inconsistent practice in South Asia. Given the ways in which centralized states and material inequalities have undermined secularism, the volume shows that pleas for tolerance cannot adequately rectify its deficiencies.' Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Massachusetts

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