Europe, India, and the limits of secularism
Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with a...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2016
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| Dans: | Année: 2016 |
| Édition: | First edition. |
| Collection/Revue: | Religion and democracy
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Europe
/ Laïcité
/ Religion
/ Tolérance
/ Inde
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Religious Tolerance
India
B Secularism India B Religious Tolerance Europe B Religion And Politics India B Secularism Europe |
| Accès en ligne: |
Table des matières Quatrième de couverture Volltext (Verlag) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them. |
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| ISBN: | 0199086311 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199460977.001.0001 |