{"product_id":"9781108472036","title":"Secular States, Religious Politics : India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states - where the state's constitutional identity and fundamental character are not based on or derived from any religious faith - in the non-Western world. This book explains the origins, evolution and latterly the decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in India and Turkey. The anti-secular political transformations of the twenty-first century are the rise of a Sunni-Islamist definition of Turkish national identity to hegemonic power, and Hindu nationalism as India's pre-eminent political force. Both secular-state models adopted a similar operational doctrine of state intervention in and regulation of the religious sphere, rather than a Western-style separation of church and state. But, Turkish state-secularism took a culturally deracinated and harshly authoritarian form that led to its failure, whereas India's secular state - though flawed in practice - followed a culturally rooted and democratic path that makes secularism indispensable to India's future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge Univ Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48727221174507,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":194.1,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781108472036-1.jpg?v=1781655649","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781108472036","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}