Europe, India, and the limits of secularism [electronic resource] / Jakob De Roover.

Europe, India, and the limits of secularism [electronic resource] / Jakob De Roover.

First edition.

9780199086313 (electronic book)

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xii, 282 pages).

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199460977 doi

JQ220.S43 R66 2016eb

322.10954

Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them.

Even though the crisis of secularism was declared decades ago, it remains unresolved. This book argues that its roots are internal to the liberal model of secularism, which emerged from the religious dynamics of the Protestant Reformation. In Europe and India, this model has gone hand in hand with an intolerant anticlerical theology that rejects certain traditions as evil political religion. Consequently, liberal secularism often harms local forms of coexistence rather than nourishing them.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Religion and democracy.

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