Nationalist Dangers, Secular Failings
Author | : Achin Vanaik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Authoritarianism |
ISBN | : 9789350026557 |
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Author | : Achin Vanaik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Authoritarianism |
ISBN | : 9789350026557 |
Author | : Achin Vanaik |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2017-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786630737 |
With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization of the Indian polity has qualitatively advanced since the earlier edition of this book in 1997. This edition has been substantially reworked and updated with several new chapters added. Hindutva's rise necessitates a more critical take on mainstream secular claims ironically reinforced by liberal-left sections discovering special virtues in India's 'distinctive' secularism. The careful evaluation of the ongoing debate on 'Indian fascism' has resonances for the broader debate about how best to assess the dangers of the far right's rise in other liberal democracies. A study follows of how Hindutva forces are pursuing their project of establishing a Hindu Rashtra and how to thwart them through a wider transformative struggle targeting capitalism itself.
Author | : J. Christopher Soper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107189438 |
Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.
Author | : Mark Juergensmeyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Nationalism |
ISBN | : 9780195640816 |
Author | : William Safran |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780714683010 |
What is the place of religion in modern political systems? This volume addresses that question by focusing on ten countries across several geographic areas: Western and East-Central Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Asia. These countries are comparable in the sense that they are committed to constitutional rule, have embraced a more or less secular culture, and have formal guarantees of freedom of religion. Yet in all the cases examined here religion impinges on the political system in the form of legal establishment, semi-legitimation, subvention, and/or selective institutional arrangements and its role is reflected in cultural norms, electoral behaviour and public policies. The relationship between religion and politics comes in many varieties in differing countries, yet all are faced with three major challenges: modernity, democracy and the increasingly multi-ethnic and multi-religious nature of their societies.
Author | : S. Clement Leslie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2016-11-09 |
Genre | : Judaism |
ISBN | : 9781138902367 |
The subject matter of this book, first published in 1971, is not less relevant, though less familiar, than the military adventures of Israel. For the book deals with the spiritual tensions that underlie and go far to explain the conduct of the country, standing as it does at the heart of some of the world¿s most dangerous political conflicts. The superpowers confront at its borders. So do the ¿modern¿ West and the force of Arab nationalism. It is the focus, too, of anti-Semitism, with its potential threat to the future of all Jews and of world peace. The questions here examined are rooted in the nature of Judaism and in the two distinct urges ¿ religious and nationalist ¿ that created Israel. Within its tiny territory some of mankind¿s most urgent spiritual problems appear at their most intense. What do men live for: for themselves, their country, higher values? How these tensions are resolved will affect both the conduct of Israel, with its effects on the fortunes of all nations, and the thoughts of men everywhere about their own and their countries¿ deeper problems. One section of the book deals with the institutions and policies of Israel as expressions of its inner spirit: the kibbutz, the army, the ingathering of exiles, the attitudes to Arabs within and beyond the frontiers, relations with world Jewry. Two final chapters describe and analyse the perennial problem of Jewish identity, seen in the light of the actions of a modern state.
Author | : Shabnum Tejani |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253058325 |
Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism. Shabnum Tejani unpacks prevailing assumptions about the meaning of secularism in contemporary politics, focusing on India but with many points of comparison elsewhere in the world. She questions the simple dichotomy between secularism and communalism that has been used in scholarly study and political discourse. Tracing the social, political, and intellectual genealogies of the concepts of secularism and communalism from the late nineteenth century until the ratification of the Indian constitution in 1950, she shows how secularism came to be bound up with ideas about nationalism and national identity.
Author | : Kenneth J. Long |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2024-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666948632 |
America’s debates over secularism are not what they seem. Far from being primarily about religion and its place in politics, these battles over ill-defined secularism are now seen as a diversion in an escalating culture war caused by incapacitated government. Government’s failure to generate needed policies have made Americans angry and unkind: liberals becoming increasingly condescending while the right becomes more transparently racist. Politicians, unable to legislate, still need voters, and they succeed by swiftly changing “issues,” which are often coded as religious but are mostly about everyday matters. Kenneth J. Long argues that public failure elicits personal vice. The liberal values of tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion are “virtues” of the condescending. The belief in science, a tool, is strange at best, and the disdain for the anti-scientific is likewise condescending. For the right, “Christian” is increasingly popular among those who are growing ever less religious and serves as cover for a racist white identity politics. Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures illuminates the troublesome outcomes posed by “protecting” autonomy through restraint of representative government and by pitting constituency against constituency to “safeguard” faith from government and vice versa. People of goodwill, faithful and not, are needed to redirect our focus from the symptoms (cultural warfare) to the structural governmental causes.
Author | : Ajeet Javed |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195476743 |
Political biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1876-1948, statesman and founder of Pakistan.
Author | : Michael Walzer |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300213913 |
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America’s foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks why these secular democratic movements have failed to sustain their hegemony: Why have they been unable to reproduce their political culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful establishment of secular politics in the early American republic—thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today.