Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics write by Seyla Benhabib. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies' encounters with modernity itself. Are Islam and democracy compatible? Can we shed the language of 'Islam vs. the West' for new political imaginaries? The authors analyze struggles over political legitimacy since the Arab Spring and the rise of Al Qaeda and ISIS in their historical and political complexity across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Distinguishing multiculturalism from interculturalism and understanding multiple modernities, philosophers in the volume tease out the complexities of civilizational encounters. The volume also shows how the Paris massacres or the Danish caricature controversy do not remain confined to Europe but influence struggles and confrontations within Muslim societies. Gender and Islam are addressed from a comparative perspective bringing into conversation not only the experience of different Muslim countries with Islamic law but also by analysing Jewish family law.
Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation
Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation write by Volker Kaul. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. It addresses the burning questions of our times, viz. nationalism, populism, Islamic fundamentalism, multiculturalism, postsecularism and postcolonialism. The volume repudiates an easy reconciliation between identity and emancipation, such as it occurs in contemporary liberal and multicultural political theories. It shows that we cannot achieve emancipation without Kant’s help, whereas identity relentlessly draws us back to collective values and the community. The book urges for a new understanding of identity and a politics that instead of accommodating identities seeks to govern them. Identity is the buzzword in the humanities and social sciences, but also the most contentious and least conceptualized term. This book intends to bring theoretical clarity into the debate on how identity plays out in politics.
The Caliphate of Man
The Caliphate of Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Caliphate of Man write by Andrew F. March. This book was released on 2019. The Caliphate of Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Islamist thinkers used to debate the doctrine of the caliphate of man, which holds that God is sovereign but has appointed the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. Andrew March argues that the doctrine underpins a democratic vision of popular rule over governments and clerics. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive only in theory?
The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse
The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse write by Lori G. Beaman. This book was released on 2020-03-27. The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board meetings. Each case involves a different national context—Canada, France and the United States—and each illustrates something interesting about the shape-shifting nature of religion, specifically its flexibility and dexterity in the face of the secular, the religious and the plural. Despite the differences in national contexts, in each instance religion is transformed into culture or heritage by the courts to justify or excuse its presence and to distance the state from the possibility that it is violating legal norms of distance from religion. The cultural practice or symbol is represented as a shared national value or activity. Transforming the ‘Other’ into ‘Us’ through reconstitution is also possible. Finally, anxiety about the ‘Other’ becomes part of the story of rendering religion as culture, resulting in the impugning of anyone who dares to question the putative shared culture. The book will be essential reading for students, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of sociology of religion, religious studies, socio-legal studies, law and public policy, constitutional law, religion and politics, and cultural studies.
Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe
Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe write by Volker Kaul. This book was released on 2020-02-28. Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective. Despite the very different and to some extent opposite historical and political trajectories, there is today a convergence on nationalist affirmation and on majoritarian politics between South Asia and Europe. In India, the Hindu majority rebels against wide-ranging minority rights anchored in the Constitution. In Europe, the refugee crisis and Islamic radicalization bring to the forefront the postcolonial legacy. Despite all rhetoric, there are obvious dangers of majoritarianism. Populist parties are divisive, partisan, disregard minority rights, engage in lynching, social division, stigmatization and exclusion, turning minorities into second-class citizens. There is a profound structural connection between minorities and the current rise of populism in India and Europe. But there remains a deep perplexity and also anxiety: Does the presence of minorities necessarily have to trigger majoritarian policies? Are there no solutions to this dilemma? Many observers considered multicultural policies and affirmative action programs in India as a possible model for Europe to adopt in order to achieve greater integration. But eventually they seem to have failed. Why so? Are multiculturalism and the recognition of differences still options today? On the other hand, most scholars in India typically reject the European model of liberal democracy and secularism as impracticable in India and locate the reason for the current malaise in the west. But is liberal democracy really so bad in dealing with pluralism? This volume, collecting a selection of the Reset DOC Venice-Padua-Delhi dialogue series, is going to answer two fundamental questions. First, what precisely is the nexus between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe? Starting from those case studies, the authors will also draw some general theoretical inferences about the nature of populism. Secondly, given the dangers of populism for minorities, the volume will look for the most adequate and feasible solutions.
