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Religious Politics and Secular States

Szerző: Scott W Hibbard

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Johns Hopkins University Press

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This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United St...

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Szerző

Scott W Hibbard

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

328

EAN

9781421405773

ISBN

1421405776

Enbook ID

04463170

Kiadó

Johns Hopkins University Press

Súly

464

Méretek

153 x 226 x 22

Teljes leírás

This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain so influential in the politics of these three ostensibly secular societies. The United States, Egypt, and India were quintessential models of secular modernity in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1980s and 1990s, conservative Islamists challenged the Egyptian government, India witnessed a surge in Hindu nationalism, and the Christian right in the United States rose to dominate the Republican Party and large swaths of the public discourse. Using a nuanced theoretical framework that emphasizes the interaction of religion and politics, Scott W. Hibbard argues that three interrelated issues led to this state of affairs. First, as an essential part of the construction of collective identities, religion serves as a basis for social solidarity and political mobilization. Second, in providing a moral framework, religion's traditional elements make it relevant to modern political life. Third, and most significant, in manipulating religion for political gain, political elites undermined the secular consensus of the modern state that had been in place since the end of World War II. Together, these factors sparked a new era of right-wing religious populism in the three nations. Although much has been written about the resurgence of religious politics, scholars have paid less attention to the role of state actors in promoting new visions of religion and society. Religious Politics and Secular States fills this gap by situating this trend within long-standing debates over the proper role of religion in public life.