The Crisis of Secularism in IndiaAnuradha Dingwaney Needham, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Duke University Press, 18 ian. 2007 - 411 pagini While secularism has been integral to India’s democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the precarious situation of India’s minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying of a significant proportion of the diasporic Hindu community behind a resurgent nationalist Hinduism. There is a broad consensus that a crisis of secularism exists, but whether the state can resolve conflicts and ease tensions or is itself part of the problem is a matter of vigorous political and intellectual debate. In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading Indian cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India. Scholars of history, anthropology, religion, politics, law, philosophy, and media studies take on a broad range of concerns. Some consider the history of secularism in India; others explore theoretical issues such as the relationship between secularism and democracy or the shortcomings of the categories “majority” and “minority.” Contributors examine how the debates about secularism play out in schools, the media, and the popular cinema. And they address two of the most politically charged sites of crisis: personal law and the right to practice and encourage religious conversion. Together the essays inject insightful analysis into the fraught controversy about the shortcomings and uncertain future of secularism in the world today. Contributors. Flavia Agnes, Upendra Baxi, Shyam Benegal, Akeel Bilgrami, Partha Chatterjee, V. Geetha, Sunil Khilnani, Nivedita Menon, Ashis Nandy, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Gyanendra Pandey, Gyan Prakash, Arvind Rajagopal, Paula Richman, Sumit Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Shabnum Tejani, Romila Thapar, Ravi S. Vasudevan, Gauri Viswanathan |
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... tion in this violence . " Gujarat , " therefore , functions as an important referent in what is viewed by many as the most recent crisis of secularism and resonates as the occasion and framework for most of the essays collected in this ...
... tion of religion , " but also , in some quarters , by the intuited demands of an enlarged conception of the ethical and affective life that secularization has failed to meet : both these responses are essentially identified with the ...
... tion of containment . He proposes that the military and economic power of the United States and its readiness to deploy it globally mean that it has “ itself become a world religion , " a different and vastly more momentous matter than ...
... tion " allows one , he maintained , to avoid " the pitfalls of nationalism " ( Said , Interview , 232–33 ) .15 Said knew nationalism as intimately as any postcolonial intellectual of our time and his critique of it therefore bears some ...
... tion of the secular state . . . to regulate all aspects of individual life - even the most intimate , such as birth and death ... ; all social activity requires the consent of the law , and therefore of the nation - state ” ( Formations ...
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Gandhi Ambedkar and the Ethics of Communal Representation c 1931 | 45 |
Ramasamis Public Critique of Religion | 66 |
Nehrus Faith | 89 |
A Personal Statement | 107 |
Living with Secularism | 118 |
The Contradictions of Secularism | 141 |
The Secular State and the Limits of Dialogue | 157 |
Secular Nationalism Hindutva and the Minority | 177 |
The Transcendental Significance of the Cinema | 239 |
A Riddle Wrapped Inside an Enigma? | 267 |
The Supreme Court the Media and the Uniform Civil Code Debate in India | 294 |
Secularism and the Very Concept of Law | 316 |
Literacy and Conversion in the Discourse of Hindu Nationalism | 333 |
Christian Conversions Hindutva and Secularism | 356 |
Chronology of the Career of Secularism in India | 369 |
Works Cited | 373 |
Secularism History and Contemporary Politics in India | 191 |
Lessons for Secularism | 208 |
Secularism and Popular Indian Cinema | 225 |
Contributors | 397 |
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