Religious difference in a secular age : a minority report /

Religious difference in a secular age : a minority report /

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Author / Creator:Mahmood, Saba, 1962-2018, author.
Imprint:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages)
Language:English
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:
Religious minorities -- Egypt.
Freedom of religion -- Egypt.
Secularism -- Egypt.
Freedom of religion.
Religious minorities.
Secularism.
Egypt.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12407290
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ISBN:1400873533
9781400873531
9780691153278
0691153272
9780691153285
0691153280
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
Summary:The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais--religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country--Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.
Other form:Print version: Mahmood, Saba, 1962- Religious difference in a secular age. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016] 9780691153278
Standard no.:10.1515/9781400873531

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