Religious politics and secular states : Egypt, India and the United States / Scott W. Hibbard.
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- Religious politics & secular states [عنوان الغلاف]
- BL65.P7 H53 2012
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | BL65.P7 H53 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 300100312820 |
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BL65.P7 H38 1993 Religion in Third World politics / | BL65.P7 H39 2011 Religion, politics and international relations : selected essays / | BL65.P7 H39 2011 Religion, politics and international relations : selected essays / | BL65.P7 H53 2012 Religious politics and secular states : Egypt, India and the United States / | BL65.P7 H5312 2012 الدين و وظائفه السياسية : (مصر - الهند - أمريكا) / | BL65.P7 H5312 2012 الدين و وظائفه السياسية : (مصر - الهند - أمريكا) / | BL65.P7 H87 2003 نحن والطائفية / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain so influential in the politics of these three ostensibly secular societies. The United States, Egypt, and India were quintessential models of secular modernity in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1980s and 1990s, conservative Islamists challenged the Egyptian government, India witnessed a surge in Hindu nationalism, and the Christian right in the United States rose to dominate the Republican Party and large swaths of the public discourse. Using a nuanced theoretical framework that emphasizes the interaction of religion and politics, Scott W. Hibbard argues that three interrelated issues First, as an essential part of the construction of collective identities, religion serves as a basis for social solidarity and political mobilization. Second, in providing a moral framework, religion's traditional elements make it relevant to modern political life. Third, and most significant, in manipulating religion for political gain, political elites undermined the secular consensus of the modern state that had been in place since the end of World War II. Together, these factors sparked a new era of right-wing religious populism in the three nations. First, as an essential part of the construction of collective identities, religion serves as a basis for social solidarity and political mobilization. Second, in providing a moral framework, religion's traditional elements make it relevant to modern political life. Third, and most significant, in manipulating religion for political gain, political elites undermined the secular consensus of the modern state that had been in place since the end of World War II. Together, these factors sparked a new era of right-wing religious populism in the three nations.