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100	1		_aWalzer, Michael _eauthor. _9100532
245	1	4	_aThe paradox of liberation : _bsecular revolutions and religious counterrevolutions / _cMichael Walzer.
264		1	_aNew Haven ; _aLondon : _bYale University Press, _c2015.
300			_axiv, 172 pages
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks why these secular democratic movements have failed to sustain their hegemony: Why have they been unable to reproduce their political culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful establishment of secular politics in the early American republic--thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zDeveloping countries. _928873
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zDeveloping countries. _959619
650		0	_aSecularism _zDeveloping countries. _959620
650		0	_aReligious fundamentalism _zDeveloping countries. _959621
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