Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108428541 ISBN 13 : 9781108428545

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108428541
• ISBN 13: 9781108428545
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Iqtidar Humeira, Sarkar Tanika
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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