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"Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks why these secular democratic movements have failed to sustain their hegemony: Why have they been unable to reproduce their political culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful establishment of secular politics in the early American republic--thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today"--

Sharī'a is one of the most hotly contested and misunderstood concepts and practices in the world today. Debates about Islamic law and its relationship to secularism and Christianity have dominated political and theological discourse for centuries. Unfortunately, Western Christian theologians have failed to engage sufficiently with the challenges and questions raised by Islamic political theology, preferring instead to essentialize or dismiss it. In Law and the Rule of God, Joshua Ralston presents an innovative approach to Christian-Muslim dialogue. Eschewing both polemics and apologetics, he proposes a comparative framework for Christian engagement with Islamic debates on sharī'a. Ralston draws on a diverse range of thinkers from both traditions including Karl Barth, Ibn Taymiyya, Thomas Aquinas, and Mohammad al-Jabri. He offers an account of public law as a provisional and indirect witness to the divine rule of justice. He also demonstrates how this theology of public law deeply resonates with the Christian tradition and is also open to learning from and dialoguing with Islamic and secular conceptions of law, sovereignty, and justice.

"This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the emergence and possibilities of the category of religion; and the relation between religion and violence, secularism, and sovereignty. Together, they provide a synoptic view of how de Vries's work has prompted a reconceptualization of how religion should be studied, especially in relation to theology, politics, and new media. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and philosophy"--

In The Return of the Native, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Josip Kesic explore how nativist logics have infiltrated liberal settings and discourses, primarily in the Netherlands as well as other countries with strong liberal traditions like the US and France. They deconstruct and explain the underlying logic of nativist narratives and show how these narratives are emerging in the discourses of secularism, racism, populism, and left-wing politics. By moving systematically through these key iterations of nativism, Duyvendak and Kesic show how liberal ideas themselves are becoming tools for claiming that some people do not belong to the nation.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: What Will Become of Europe? -- 1. Mind the 'Cap' -- 2. Derrida's Europe: 'Greek, Christian and Beyond' -- 3. A Roman Europe of Hope: Reading Derrida with Brague -- 4. Other Shores: Insularity, Materiality and the Making (and Unmaking) of 'Europe' -- 5. Europe's Constitution for the Unborn -- 6. The Borders of Contemporary Europe: Territory, Justice and Rights -- 7. We, the Non-Europeans: Derrida with Said -- 8. Of Europe: Zionism and the Jewish Other -- 9. The European Ideal in the Face of the Muslim Other -- 10. Christianity, Secularism and the Crisis of Europe -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Diversity, Integration, Secularism and Multiculturalism -- PART I Theoretical Developments in a Comparative European Perspective -- 2 Framing Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe -- 3 The Multicultural States We're In -- 4 Beyond Post-national Citizenship: Access, Consequence, Conditionality -- 5 Islamic Difference and the Return of Feminist Universalism -- PART II Cultural Diversity and Policy Responses in the European Union -- 6 Religious Diversity and Education: Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Policies -- 7 Active Immigrants in Multicultural Contexts: Democratic Challenges in Europe -- 8 Not a One-way Road? Integration as a Concept and as a Policy -- 9 Ethnic Statistics in Europe: The Paradox of Colourblindness -- Index

"This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the emergence and possibilities of the category of religion; and the relation between religion and violence, secularism, and sovereignty. Together, they provide a synoptic view of how de Vries's work has prompted a reconceptualization of how religion should be studied, especially in relation to theology, politics, and new media. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and philosophy"--

Introduction: The three ages of India's democracy -- The Hindu nationalist power quest : Hindutva and populism -- Hindu nationalism : a different idea of India -- Modi in Gujarat, the making of a national-populist hero -- Modi's rise to power or how to exploit hope, fear, and anger -- What fight against poverty? -- The world's largest de facto ethnic democracy -- Hindu majoritarianism against secularism -- Targeting minorities -- A de facto Hindu rashtra : Indian-style vigilantism -- The Indian version of comptetitive authoritarianism -- Deinstitutionalizing India -- Towards "electoral authoritarianism" : the 2019 elections -- The making of an authoritarian Hindu state -- Indian Muslims : from social marginalization to institutional exclusion and judicial obliteration.

Introduction : toward an infrahistory of republican Turkey -- The price of the republic for the peasants -- Raising voice and rural discontent -- Resisting the agricultural taxes -- Social smuggling : resistance to the monopolies -- Theft, violence and banditry -- The price of the republic for the working class -- Labor discontent -- Survival struggles and everyday resistance -- Violence, protests and walkouts -- The hotbeds of opposition to anti-secularism : mosques, coffehouses and homes -- Informal media vs. official discourse : word of mouth, rumors and placaords -- Neither fez, nor hat : contesting the hat reform -- Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns -- Old habits die hard : tenacity of old lifestyles in new times -- Epilogue : infrastructure of Turkey's modernization.

Cover -- REFORMING THE MORAL SUBJECT -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Critical Ethics, or the Subject of Reform -- Part I. Ethics Reform -- 1. An Ethics of Gesellschaft -- 2. The "New Ethic": A Particularist Challenge -- Part II. The Sexualization of the Moral Subject -- 3. Conflicted Sexualities and Conflicted Secularisms -- 4. Global Influences, Local Responses -- 5. Moral Laws and Impossible Laws: The "Female Homosexual" and the Criminal Code -- Part III. Resonances and Resistances -- 6. Social Matters: Social Democracy and the Ethics of Materialism -- 7. Losses and Unlikely Legacies: Psychoanalysis and Femininity -- Afterword: Moral Citizenship, or Ethics beyond the Law -- Bibliography -- Index

Introduction: modernity, Islam, and society : the argument for a heuristic eurocentrism -- 'Society' in European modernity -- A Secular Age as a heuristic tool -- Modernity in Egypt : nation, society, secularism, and the press -- Al-Manar : the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism -- The Arabic saddle period and Arabic terms for 'society' -- Al-Hay'a al-Ijtimāʻiyya in al-Manar : offering umma as an alternative -- Mujtamaʻ in al-Manar : avoiding the established meaning of 'society' -- Rafiq al-ʻAzm : Islamic reformis, secular historian, and sociological thinker -- Social association reified : Ijtimāʻ, Ijtimāʻī, and umma in articles by Rashid Rida -- Conclusion : society, the immanent frame, and modernity : concepts, spins, and genealogies -- Appendix : Tables of search terms.

This book compares the postcolonial populations of Britain and France, examining the ways in which they are redefining citizenship. Bearing in mind the different histories and political systems of each country, it considers questions of national identity, values, the place of religion, secularism and public spaces - all integral to determining what makes a country a true nation. Recent security threats have made the debate around minorities and assimilation all the more pressing, and this book delves deep into the issues of feminism, Islam and group identities. It will be of interest to students and scholars of race, religion and migration studies

Machine generated contents note:Force of Living --Bantu Philosophy: A Contradictory Text --Ontology of Living Force --Languages and Translation --Proof by Aesthetics --Time we Need --That Time we Call African --Words to Speak of Time --To Foresee or to Anticipate --Speech and Ink --Sense of Urgency and the Passage to Writing --Philosophy and Orality --Meanings of Timbuktu --Socialisms and Democracy --African Path to Socialism According to Nyerere --Socialism, Consciencism, Spiritualism and Secularism --Senghor and Humanist Socialism --Democratic Turn and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights --Conclusion: Lessons from the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

This book analyzes three often-debated questions of Spinoza's legacy: Was Spinoza a religious thinker? How should we understand Spinoza's mind-body doctrine? What meaning can be given to Spinoza's notions - such as salvation, beatitude, and freedom - which are seemingly incompatible with his determinism, his secularism, and his critique of religion. Through a close reading of often-overlooked sections from Spinoza's Ethics, Elhanan Yakira argues that these seemingly conflicting elements are indeed compatible, despite Spinoza's iconoclastic meanings. Yakira argues that Ethics is an attempt at providing a purely philosophical - as opposed to theological - foundation for the theory of value and normativity.