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Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry - hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation - to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences over the last twenty years.

Causation --- Social sciences --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Speculative Philosophy --- Methodology --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization

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Contributory essays.

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This title contains a collection of essays which take a critical look at diverse representations of public and private, the manner in which they reinforce each other and collectively impact upon democracy.

Communities. --- Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Individualism. --- Public interest. --- State, The --- Common good --- Economics --- Equality --- Political science --- Self-interest --- Sociology --- Libertarianism --- Personalism --- Persons --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Self-government --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Community --- Social groups

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Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity?Religious diversity is one of the toughest challenges that today’s European societies face in their search for identity, equality and cohesion in an increasingly globalised world. This book engages critically with the different models and approaches for managing religion adopted in Europe, Asia and Oceania in order to seek answers to this pressing normative, conceptual and policy issue. Key FeaturesShowcases high level scholarship from around the world – a truly intercontinental volume that disrupts the previous dominance of Euro- and West-centric viewpoints and analysesBrings together scholars from political theory, Islamic studies, sociology and lawDistinguishes secularism from atheism and democracy (or authoritarianism) Explores alternative conceptions of the secular arising from the search for a civic basis of national unity or from a religious sense of nationhoodCase studies cover Britain, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Israel, as well as several comparative European studiesContributorsRochana Bajpai, SOAS, UK Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, UKMarie Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyGurpreet Mahajan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MalaysiaHaldun GülalpZawawi Ibrahim, University Brunei Darussalam, BruneiGeoffrey Brahm Levey, University of New South Wales, Australia Tariq Modood, University of Bristol, UKBhikhu Parekh, House of Lords and University of Hull, UKTariq Ramadan, University of Oxford, UKAlfred Stepan, Columbia University, USAAnna Triandafyllidou, EUI, Italy

Church and state. --- Cultural pluralism. --- Secularism. --- Asia --- Oceania --- Religious life and customs.