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Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism / Jakob de Roover

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2016.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 282 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780199460977
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 322.10954 DER
Summary: This book argues that the crisis of liberal secularism stems from its internal roots as a secularized theological model with deep origins in the Protestant Reformation, rather than being a neutral or non-religious framework. It traces how this model fostered intolerant anticlerical views toward Catholicism and Judaism in Europe, which were later adapted into colonial descriptions that mischaracterized Hinduism and the caste system as false religion, ultimately harming local forms of coexistence in India.
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This book argues that the crisis of liberal secularism stems from its internal roots as a secularized theological model with deep origins in the Protestant Reformation, rather than being a neutral or non-religious framework. It traces how this model fostered intolerant anticlerical views toward Catholicism and Judaism in Europe, which were later adapted into colonial descriptions that mischaracterized Hinduism and the caste system as false religion, ultimately harming local forms of coexistence in India.

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