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020			_a9781474269223
245	0	0	_aConfronting secularism in Europe and India :
250			_aFirst paperback edition
264			_bBloomsbury Publishing Plc _c2014
300			_aviii, 208 pages ;
520			_a"Can secularism continue to provide a foundation for political legitimacy? It is often claimed that one of the cultural achievements of the West has been its establishment of secular democracy, wherein religious belief is respected but confined to the sphere of private belief. In more recent times, however, political secularism has been increasingly called into question. Religious believers, in numerous traditions, have protested against the distortion and confinement that secularism imposes on their faith. Others have become uneasily aware of the way in which secularism no longer commands universal assent in the way it once did. Confronting Secularism in Europe and India adds to this debate by staging a creative encounter between European and Indian conceptions of secularism with a view to continuing new and distinctive trajectories of thought about the place and role of secularism in contemporary times. Looking at political secularism, the relationship between secularism and religion, and religious and secular violence, this book considers whether there are viable alternatives to secularism in Europe and in India"--
650		0	_aSecularism
650		0	_aSecularism
650		0	_aReligion and politics
650		0	_aReligion and politics
700	1		_aBlack, Brian,
700	1		_aHyman, Gavin,
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