| Series |
Modern South Asia
Modern South Asia series. ^A1384659
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| Contents |
Itineraries of Democracy and Religious Plurality / Karen Barkey, Sudipta Kaviraj, and Vatsal Naresh -- Islam, Modernity, and the Question of Religious Heterodoxy: From Early Modern Empires to Modern Nation-States / Sadia Saeed -- Liberalism and the Path to Treason in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1923 / Christine Philliou -- Fatal Love: Intimacy and Interest in Indian Political Thought / Faisal Devji -- Conflict, Secularism, and Toleration / Uday S. Mehta -- Representative Democracy and Religious Thought in South Asia: Abul A'la Maududi and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar / Humeira Iqtidar -- Religious Pluralism and the State in India: Toward a Typology / Rochana Bajpai -- Is Turkey a Postsecular Society? Secular Differentiation, Committed Pluralism, and Complementary Learning in Contemporary Turkey / Ateş Altinordu -- The Meaning of Religious Freedom: From Ireland and India to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan / Matthew J. Nelson -- The Limits of Pluralism: A Perspective on Religious Freedom in Indian Constitutional Law / Mathew John -- Plurality and Pluralism: Democracy, Religious Difference and Political Imagination / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws versus Religious Pluralism / Fatima Y. Bokhari -- Changing Modalities of Violence: Lessons from Hindu Nationalist India / Amrita Basu -- Legal Contention and Minorities in Turkey: The Case of the Kurds and Alevis / Senem Aslan -- "Stranger, Enemy": Anti-Shia Hostility and Annihilatory Politics in Pakistan / Nosheen Ali -- Thinking through Majoritarian Domination in Turkey and India / Karen Barkey and Vatsal Naresh. |
| Abstract |
"Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism examines the relationship between the functioning of democracy and the prior existence of religious plurality in three societies outside the West: India, Pakistan, and Turkey. All three societies had on one hand deep religious diversity and on the other long histories as imperial states that responded to religious diversity through their specific pre-modern imperial institutions. Each country has followed a unique historical trajectory with regard to crafting democratic institutions to deal with such extreme diversity. The volume focuses on three core themes: historical trends before the modern state's emergence that had lasting effects; the genealogies of both the state and religion in politics and law; and the problem of violence toward and domination over religious out-groups. Volume editors Karen Barkey, Sudipta Kaviarj, and Vatsal Naresh have gathered a group of leading scholars across political science, sociology, history, and law to examine this multifaceted topic. Together, they illuminate various trajectories of political thought, state policy, and the exercise of social power during and following a transition to democracy. Just as importantly, they ask us to reflexively examine the political categories and models that shape our understanding of what has unfolded in South Asia and Turkey."--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780197530023 paperback |
| ISBN | 0197530028 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780197530016 hardback |
| ISBN | 019753001X hardback |
