Author : Sadia Saeed
Release : 2017-01-19
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 850/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Politics of Desecularization by : Sadia Saeed
Download or read book Politics of Desecularization written by Sadia Saeed. This book was released on 2017-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movement away from secularist practices and toward political Islam is a prominent trend across Muslim polities. Yet this shift remains under-theorized. Why do modern Muslim polities adopt policies that explicitly cater to religious sensibilities? How are these encoded in law and with what effects? Sadia Saeed addresses these questions through examining shifts in Pakistan's official state policies toward the rights of religious minorities, in particular the controversial Ahmadiyya community. Looking closely at the 'Ahmadi question', Saeed develops a framework for conceptualizing and explaining modern desecularization processes that emphasizes the critical role of nation-state formation, political majoritarianism, and struggles between 'secularist' and 'religious' ideologues in evolving political and legal fields. The book demonstrates that desecularization entails instituting new understandings of religion through processes and justifications that are quintessentially modern.