Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780199460977
Subjects: Religious tolerance; Religion and politics; Europe, politics and government; India, politics and government
Description: Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them.