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Questioning Secularism
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Pages: 297
Authors: Hussein Ali Agrama
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-02 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusi
Questioning Secularism
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Hussein Ali Agrama
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-02 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The central question of the Arab Spring—what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East—has developed into a vigorous
Questioning French Secularism
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Jennifer Selby
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-06 - Publisher: Springer

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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argu
The Post-secular in Question
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Philip Gorski
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-12 - Publisher: NYU Press

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"This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the
Questioning the Secular State
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: David Westerlund
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

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Should the state be secular or religious. Here the author seeks to determine the extent of the role of religion in political life.