TY - BOOK ID - 85644874 TI - Secular states, religious politics : India, Turkey, and the future of secularism PY - 2018 SN - 1108559468 1108611494 1108472036 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Secularism KW - Religion and politics KW - Hinduism and state KW - Islam and state KW - Mosque and state KW - State and Islam KW - State, The KW - Ummah (Islam) KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical KW - Politics and religion KW - Religion KW - Religions KW - Ethics KW - Irreligion KW - Utilitarianism KW - Atheism KW - Postsecularism KW - Secularization (Theology) KW - Political aspects KW - Religious aspects KW - India KW - Turkey KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85644874 AB - A pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states - where the state's constitutional identity and fundamental character are not based on or derived from any religious faith - in the non-Western world. This book explains the origins, evolution and latterly the decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in India and Turkey. The anti-secular political transformations of the twenty-first century are the rise of a Sunni-Islamist definition of Turkish national identity to hegemonic power, and Hindu nationalism as India's pre-eminent political force. Both secular-state models adopted a similar operational doctrine of state intervention in and regulation of the religious sphere, rather than a Western-style separation of church and state. But, Turkish state-secularism took a culturally deracinated and harshly authoritarian form that led to its failure, whereas India's secular state - though flawed in practice - followed a culturally rooted and democratic path that makes secularism indispensable to India's future. ER -