The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey

by Murat Akan

Book Overview

Discussions of modernity--or alternative and multiple modernities--often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe, which neglects the experience of much of the world, or emphasize a local, non-European context that limits the potential for comparison. In The Politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181817
• ISBN13: 9780231181815
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.7"