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Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics S a e e d The movement away from secularist practices and toward political Islam is a prominent trend across Muslim polities. Yet this shift remains under- i T theorized. Why do modern Muslim polities adopt policies that explicitly n h Politics of cater to religious sensibilities? Howare these encoded in law and with what P e a P effects? Sadia Saeed addresses these questions through examining shifts in k o Desecularization i Pakistan’s official state policies toward the rights of religious minorities, in s l t i particular the controversial Ahmadiyya community. Looking closely at the a t n i “Ahmadi question,” Saeed develops a framework for conceptualizing and c Law and the Minority Question s explaining modern desecularization processes that emphasizes the critical o in Pakistan role of nation-state formation, political majoritarianism, and struggles f between “secularist” and “religious” ideologues in evolving political and D legal fields. The book demonstrates that desecularization entails instituting e Sadia Saeed s e new understandings of religion through processes and justifications that c are quintessentially modern. u l a r i z a t i o n Cover credit : Candice Cusack PoliticsofDesecularization Over time the Pakistani state has moved from accommodating the Ahmadiyyacommunityasfullcitizensofthestatetoforciblydeclaring them non-Muslim and eventually criminalizing them for their religious beliefs. Politics of Desecularization deploys the “Ahmadi question” to theorize a core feature of modern public Islam – its contested and unsettled relationship with the nation-state form. It posits that our current understandings of modern religious change have been shaped by a highly limited number of national cases in which states have been successful at arriving at stable ideologies about religion. Pakistan, however, epitomizes polities that are undergoing protractedpoliticalandculturalstruggles over religion’s proper place in the state. The book’s gripping account shows that these struggles are carried out in social sites as diverse as courts, legislative assemblies, and newspapers. The result in Pakistan has been the emergence of a trajectory of desecularization characterized byofficialreligiousnationalism. SadiaSaeedisanAssistantProfessorofSociologyattheUniversityof SanFrancisco. CambridgeStudiesinSocialTheory,Religion,andPolitics EditorsDavidC.Leege,UniversityofNotreDame KennethD.Wald,UniversityofFlorida,Gainesville RichardL.Wood,UniversityofNewMexico Themostenduringandilluminatingbodiesoflatenineteenth-centurysocialtheory–by Marx,Weber,Durkheim,andothers–emphasizedtheintegrationofreligion,polity,and economythroughtimeandplace.Onceastapleofclassicsocialtheory,however,religion gradually lost the interest of many social scientists during the twentieth century. 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Firstpublished2016 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Saeed,Sadia,author. Politicsofdesecularization:lawandtheminorityquestion inPakistan/SadiaSaeed. Cambridgestudiesinsocialtheory,religion,andpolitics. NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2016.|Series:Cambridgestudies insocialtheory,religionandpolitics|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. LCCN2016030314|ISBN9781107140035(alkalinepaper) LCSH:Religiousminorities–Pakistan.|Religiouslawandlegislation– Pakistan.|Ahmadiyya–Pakistan.|Secularization–Pakistan.|Islamand politics–Pakistan.|Islamandstate–Pakistan.|Islamand state–Pakistan–History. 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