Turkish and Indian Secularisms in Comparative Perspective
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Zeynep Aysel Madra
نام ساير پديدآوران
A. Arato
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
The New School
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2013
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
258
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
The New School
امتياز متن
2013
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Recent scholarship emphasizes that secularism takes divergent forms in different national settings in terms of institutional arrangement and ideology. In this dissertation, I examine the Turkish and Indian variants of secularism--both recently challenged by the rise of religious politics-- from a comparative-historical perspective. To this end, I examine the debates on secularism that took place in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (1920-1931) and the Indian Constituent Assembly (1946-1949) through which the secular regimes of these societies were established. A close examination of these debates shows that while the separation of religion and the state was an important aspect of both Turkish and Indian secularisms, both entailed another strand which allowed the state to intervene in the religious sphere, although for different ends. I then examine how the Turkish and Indian states continued to "reform" and "rationalize" the majority religion--Islam in Turkey and Hinduism in India--through legislative, judicial, and administrative means following the establishment of these secular regimes. This analysis shows that although secularism was historically linked to the construction of sovereign nation-states in both settings, it served different functions in these two projects. Whereas Turkish secularism sanctions state intervention in the religious domain in order to control religion and create a homogeneous nation, the Indian variant of secularism deems it necessary to instigate social reform and create "unity in diversity." Based on these two very different cases, I argue that redefining and regulating the religious sphere is an important feature of secularism which determines the form of religion and the role it will play in society. In this respect, one can think of secularism as a "tool of governance" which is utilized in accordance with the imperatives of creating a modern, secular nation and implementing the nationalist agenda.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Comparative historical sociology
موضوع مستند نشده
India
موضوع مستند نشده
Parliamentary debates
موضوع مستند نشده
Philosophy, religion and theology
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion and politics
موضوع مستند نشده
Social sciences
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