ISBN:
9780199086313
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource.
Edition:
First edition.
Series Statement:
Religion and democracy
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als De Roover, Jakob Europe, India, and the limits of secularism
DDC:
322.10954
Keywords:
Secularism India
;
Secularism Europe
;
Religious tolerance India
;
Religious tolerance Europe
;
Religion and politics India
;
Europa
;
Säkularismus
;
Religion
;
Toleranz
;
Indien
Abstract:
Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them.
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199460977.001.0001
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