Religious Politics and Secular States: Egypt, India, and the United States

by Scott W. Hibbard and   . 

Book Overview

2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association

This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain so influential in the politics of these three ostensibly secular societies.

The United States, Egypt, and India were quintessential models of secular modernity in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1980s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405776
• ISBN13: 9781421405773
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"