Overview
- Brings new texts on the critical issue of Secularism in comparative political contexts
- Includes many non-Western experiences and viewpoints on how secularism is theorized and lived
- Featuring the writing of preeminent scholars – such as Michael Walzer, Asma Afsaruddin, Sudipta Kaviraj
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations (PPCE, volume 23)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Secularism in Contexts
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This book confronts the key questions surrounding comparative secularism in historical perspective. The contributions critically consider the normative ideas and alternative political arrangements that govern religion’s relation to politics and to the public and private spheres.
Containing contributions by world-renowned scholars such as Michael Walzer, Asma Afsaruddin and Sudipta Kaviraj, this book recounts the arguments, debates, and disputations regarding secular arguments for accommodating religion. It does so in both critical and appreciative ways and describes some of the outcomes in actually existing institutions, policies, and practical arrangements. With the addition of many non-Western experiences and viewpoints on how secularism is theorized and lived, politically and historically and from Europe and Asia to Africa and the Americas, this volume is of great value political philosophers across the globe.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jonathan Laurence is Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is author of Coping with Defeat: Islam, Catholicism and the Modern State (Princeton, 2021) and The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims (Princeton, 2012), both of which received the Hubert Morken award for Best Book in Religion and Politics from the American Political Science Association (in 2013 and 2022). Laurence is also co-author of Integrating Islam: Religious and Political Challenges in Contemporary France (with Justin Vaïsse, Brookings, 2006). He is an affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (PhD 2006), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a board member of Reset Dialogues US.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Secularism in Comparative Perspective
Book Subtitle: Religions Across Political Contexts
Editors: Jonathan Laurence
Series Title: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13310-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13309-1Published: 05 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13312-1Published: 06 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13310-7Published: 03 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2352-8370
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 174
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Sociology of Religion, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Religion