Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age

Part I. Interpreting Secularisms

1. Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity: An Introduction
Linell E. Cady, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

2. Hermeneutics and the Politics of Secularism
Andrew Davison

3. Manifestations of the Religious-Secular Divide: Self, State, and the Public Sphere
Nilüfer Göle

Part II. History and Global Politics of Secularisms: France, United States, Turkey, and India

4. The Evolution of Secularism in France: Between Two Civil Religions
Jean Baubérot

5. Secularism and Security: France, Islam, and Europe
Yolande Jansen

6. The God-in-the-Constitution Controversy: American Secularisms in Historical Perspective
Tìsa Wenger

7. Varieties of Legal Secularism
Wìnnìfred Fallers Sullivan

8. Public-Private Distinctions, the Alevi Question, and the Headscarf: Turkish Secularism Revisited
Markus Dressler

9. Assertive Secularism in Crisis: Modernity, Democracy, and Islam in Turkey
E. Fuat Keyman

10. The “Secular Ideal” before Secularism: A Preliminary Sketch
Rajeev Bhargava

11. Indian Secularism: A Religio-Secular Ideal
T. N. Madan

12. Not Quite Secular Political Practice
Zoya Hasan

Part III. Secularisms Refracted through Religions

13. Islam and Secularism
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

14. Secularism and Heterodoxy
Gauri Viswanathan

15. Reading Secularism through a Theological Lens
Linell E. Cady

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Sociology of Religion, International Relations, Sociology, general