Muslim secular democracy
Subtitle: voices from within
By: edited by Lily Zubaidah Rahim
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781137282040
Subjects: Islam and secularism; Democracy
Description: The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the spirit of Wasatiyyah democracy / Lily Zubaidah Rahim; title: Religious secularity: reconciliation between political Islam and secular democracy / Naser Ghobadzadeh; title: The spirited voices of Muslim women in Islamic reform movements / Amina Wadud; title: Progressive Islam and Quranic hermeneutics: The reification of religion and theories of religious experience / Safdar Ahmed; title: Democracy for Muslims: Javed Ahmed Ghamidi / Samina Yasmeen; title: Muslim support for secular democracy / Pippa Norris; title: Secularism and religious freedom: challenging the postsecular / Bronwyn Winter; title: The crisis of state-led Islamization and authoritarian communal governance in Malaysia / Lily Zubaidah Rahim; title: Sisters in Islam: engendering Islamic law reform in Malaysia / Ratna Osman and Catherine Hirst; title: Religious pluralism, inclusive secularism and democratic constitutionalism: the Indonesian experience / Nadirsyah Hosen; title: Voices of dissent: social movements and political change in Egypt / Tara Povey; title: Militant laicists, Muslim democrats and liberal secularists: contending visions of secularism in Turkey / Christopher Houston.