Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism

by Sumantra Bose

Book Overview

A pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states - where the state's constitutional identity and fundamental character are not based on or derived from any religious faith - in the non-Western world. This book explains the origins, evolution and latterly the decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in India and Turkey. The anti-secular political transformations of the twenty-first century are the rise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108454860
• ISBN13: 9781108454865
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"