Edited by Jonathan Laurence, this new book on Secularism in Comparative perspective
- Brings new texts on the critical issue of Secularism in comparative political contexts
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Includes many non-Western experiences and viewpoints on how secularism is theorized and lived
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Featuring the writing of preeminent scholars – such as Michael Walzer, Asma Afsaruddin, Sudipta Kaviraj AND Carol Ferrara, who wrote an essay on France, which provides a thorough history of the 1789 French Revolution, Church-state relations, colonialism, and education, and how the intersection of these elements with the evolution of French secularism led to modern-day laïcité