Description
Book SynopsisExamines the limitations and dilemmas of government responses to religious diversity and how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Globalization, Secular States, and Religious Diversity / Bruce J. Berman, Rajeev Bhargava, and André Laliberté
Part 1: Historical and Theoretical Approaches
1 Religious Pluralism as a Self-Evident Problem in the Context of Globalization / Peter Beyer
2 Secular Modernity, Religion, and the Politics of Knowledge / Bruce J. Berman
3 Can Secularism Be Rehabilitated? / Rajeev Bhargava
Part 2: Secularisms in the West
4 Between Secularism and Postsecularism: A Canadian Interregnum / Paul Bramadat and David Seljak
5 Tolerance and Accommodation as Vestiges of the Empire / Lori G. Beaman
6 In God We Trust? Secular States, Diversity, and the “Clash” within North America / Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Claude Couture
7 Ideologies, Institutions, and Laws: Religious Freedom in Secular States / Ahmet T. Kuru
Part 3: Secularisms beyond the West
8 State Intervention in the Reform of a “Religion of Rules”: An Analysis of the Views of B.R. Ambedkar / Rinku Lamba
9 Something Got Lost in Translation: From “Secularism” to “Separation between Politics and Religion” in Taiwan / André Laliberté
10 The Changing State Monopoly on Religion and Secular Views in Thailand / Manuel Litalien
11 State-Society Structures and the Frustration of Movements for Secular Reforms in Lebanon: Civil Marriage and Youth Activism / Elinor Bray-Collins
Conclusion: Secularism, Religious Diversity, and Democratic Politic / Anna Drake
Contributors; Index
