Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world

2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association This comparative analysis probes why conservative re

Contemporary nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religi

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Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opp