Indian Secularism A Social and Intellectual History 1890-1950

 
Indian Secularism A Social and Intellectual History 1890-1950
Free Download Shabnum Tejani, "Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History 1890-1950"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 8178243121, 0253220440, 0253352568 | PDF | pages: 312 | 41.6 mb
Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism. Shabnum Tejani unpacks prevailing assumptions about the meaning of secularism in contemporary politics, focusing on India but with many points of comparison elsewhere in the world. She questions the simple dichotomy between secularism and communalism that has been used in scholarly study and political discourse. Tracing the social, political, and intellectual genealogies of the concepts of secularism and communalism from the late nineteenth century until the ratification of the Indian constitution in 1950, she shows how secularism came to be bound up with ideas about nationalism and national identity.


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Theocratic Secularism Religion and Government in Shiâi Thought

 
Theocratic Secularism Religion and Government in Shiâi Thought
Naser Ghobadzadeh, "Theocratic Secularism: Religion and Government in Shiâi Thought "
English | ISBN: 0197606792 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 22 MB
For more than forty years, there has been a religious government in Iran that claims to be rooted in shi'i political theology. In this book, Naser Ghobadzadeh intends to show that this reading of shi'i political theology is a fundamental deviation from orthodox shi'ism.


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Hurt Sentiments Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

 
Hurt Sentiments Secularism and Belonging in South Asia
Neeti Nair, "Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia"
English | ISBN: 0674238273 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 5 MB
An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.


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Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany The Rise of the Fourth Confession

 
Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany The Rise of the Fourth Confession
Todd H. Weir, "Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession"
English | ISBN: 1107041562 | 2014 | 316 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment, conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Yet, as historian Todd H. Weir argues in this provocative book, early secularism was not the opposite of religion. It developed in the rationalist dissent of Free Religion and, even as secularism took more atheistic forms in Freethought and Monism, it was subject to the forces of the confessional system it sought to dismantle. Similar to its religious competitors, it elaborated a clear worldview, sustained social milieus, and was integrated into the political system. Secularism was, in many ways, Germany's fourth confession. While challenging assumptions about the causes and course of the Kulturkampf and modern antisemitism, this study casts new light on the history of popular science, radical politics, and social reform.


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Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

 
Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion
Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion By Robert A. Yelle
2018 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 022658545X | PDF | 2 MB
Sovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the sacred and the sovereign as creating "states of exception"-that is, moments of rupture in the normative order that, by transcending this order, are capable of re-founding or remaking it-Robert A. Yelle identifies our secular, capitalist system as an attempt to exclude such moments by subordinating them to the calculability of laws and markets. The second step marshals evidence from history and anthropology that helps us to recognize the contribution of such states of exception to ethical life, as a means of release from the legal or economic order. Yelle draws on evidence from the Hebrew Bible to English deism, and from the Aztecs to ancient India, to develop a theory of polity that finds a place and a purpose for those aspects of religion that are often marginalized and dismissed as irrational by Enlightenment liberalism and utilitarianism.Developing this close analogy between two elemental domains of society, Sovereignty and the Sacred offers a new theory of religion while suggesting alternative ways of organizing our political and economic life. By rethinking the transcendent foundations and liberating potential of both religion and politics, Yelle points to more hopeful and ethical modes of collective life based on egalitarianism and popular sovereignty. Deliberately countering the narrowness of currently dominant economic, political, and legal theories, he demonstrates the potential of a revived history of religions to contribute to a rethinking of the foundations of our political and social order.


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