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Book Synopsis100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. Today, organised religion is still a powerful political force in most parts of the world. In many its political significance has grown.
Table of Contents1. Foreward: David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (Mansfield College, Oxford).
2. Secularism?: John Keane.
3. Living with Difference in India: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd Rudolph.
4. Religion and Democracy in Israel: Emanuele Ottolenghi.
5. Islam, Politics and Democracy: Mohamed Talbi and Islamic Modernism: Ronald L. Nettler.
6. Trajectories of Political Islam: Egypt, Iran and Turkey: Sami Zabaida.
7. American Fundamentalism and the Selling of God: Harold Perkin.
8. The Quiet Continent: Religion and Politics in Europe: Colin Crouch.
9. J.N.Figgis, Churches and the State: Paul Hirst.
10. Making the Christian World Safe for Liberalism: from Grotius to Rawls: Timothy Samuel Shah.
