Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity: An Introduction....Pages 3-24
Hermeneutics and the Politics of Secularism....Pages 25-39
Manifestations of the Religious-Secular Divide: Self, State, and the Public Sphere....Pages 41-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
The Evolution of Secularism in France: Between Two Civil Religions....Pages 57-68
Secularism and Security: France, Islam, and Europe....Pages 69-86
The God-in-the-Constitution Controversy: American Secularisms in Historical Perspective....Pages 87-105
Varieties of Legal Secularism....Pages 107-120
Public-Private Distinctions, the Alevi Question, and the Headscarf: Turkish Secularism Revisited....Pages 121-141
Assertive Secularism in Crisis: Modernity, Democracy, and Islam in Turkey....Pages 143-158
The “Secular Ideal” before Secularism: A Preliminary Sketch....Pages 159-180
Indian Secularism: A Religio-Secular Ideal....Pages 181-196
Not Quite Secular Political Practice....Pages 197-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Islam and Secularism....Pages 217-228
Secularism and Heterodoxy....Pages 229-245
Reading Secularism through a Theological Lens....Pages 247-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-293