This book explores the history and politics of secularism and the public role of religion in France, India, Turkey, and the United States.
Linell E. Cady is the Franca G. Oreffice Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. She is the author of Religion, Theology and American Public Life (1993), and co–editor of Religious Studies, Theology, and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain (2002), and Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence (2007). She is also co-editor of ReligionDispatches, an online magazine devoted to advancing public scholarship and reflection on religion and public affairs.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She writes and teaches about the cultural and religious foundations of international relations, with a focus on relations between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Her book The Politics of Secularism in International Relations was published by Princeton in 2008.
Preface and Acknowledgments
p. vii
Interpreting Secularisms
Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity: An Introduction
p. 3
Hermeneutics and the Politics of Secularism
p. 25
Manifestations of the Religious-Secular Divide: Self, State, and the Public Sphere
p. 41
History and Global Politics of Secularisms: France, United States, Turkey, and India
The Evolution of Secularism in France: Between Two Civil Religions
p. 57
Secularism and Security: France, Islam, and Europe
p. 69
The God-in-the-Constitution Controversy: American Secularisms in Historical Perspective
p. 87
Varieties of Legal Secularism
p. 107
Public-Private Distinctions, the Alevi Question, and the Headscarf: Turkish Secularism Revisited
p. 121
Assertive Secularism in Crisis: Modernity, Democracy, and Islam in Turkey
p. 143
The "Secular Ideal" before Secularism: A Preliminary Sketch
p. 159
Indian Secularism: A Religio-Secular Ideal
p. 181
Not Quite Secular Political Practice
p. 197
Secularisms Refracted through Religions
Islam and Secularism
p. 217
Secularism and Heterodoxy
p. 229
Reading Secularism through a Theological Lens
p. 247
Bibliography
p. 265
Contributors
p. 283
Index
p. 287
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