Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report

by Saba Mahmood

Book Overview

How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse--not better--for religious minorities

The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691153272
• ISBN13: 9780691153278
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"