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020			_a9780199496693
082			_a322.10959 _bSEC-
245			_aSecularism, Religion and Democracy in Southeast Asia
260			_bOxford University Press _c2019 _aNew Delhi
300			_axv,255p
504			_aInclude Index
520			_aUntil the 1990s, secularism was understood largely as the exclusion of religion from the public domain. However, in the last two decades, the world has witnessed the return of religion as a medium and subject of national, regional, and global politics. With such a shift, the previously unquestioned Western values of modernity and secularism find themselves at loggerheads with the increasing assertion of religious identity, which results in difference-based conflicts. This antagonism also gives rise to a vibrant, religiously pluralistic civil society and speaks of a post-secular turn in modern Southeast Asian democracies. Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia try to understand the rise of religion in modern democracies and how everyday economic, social, and political conditions to aid this post-secular phenomenon in Southeast Asia. Setting itself apart from most studies of religion in Southeast Asia through its regional focus, this volume explores the ideas, practices, state responses, and anxieties related to the religious-secular divide in this geopolitical region.
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650			_aReligion and Politics _vDemocracy _vSecularism _zSoutheast Asia
700			_aVerma, Vidhu
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