A collection of essays that situates and furthers contemporary debates around the prospects of democracy in diverse societies within and beyond the West.Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism examines the relationship between the functioning of democracy and the prior existence of religious plurality in three societies outside the West: India, Pakistan, and Turkey. All three societies had on one hand deep religious diversity and on the other long histories as imperial states that responded to religious diversity through their specific pre-modern imperial institutions. Each country has followed a unique historical trajectory with regard to crafting democratic institutions to deal with such extreme diversity. The volume focuses on three core themes: historical trends before the modern state's emergence that had lasting effects; the genealogies of both the state and religion in politics and law; and the problem of violence toward and domination over religious out-groups. Volume editors Karen Barkey, Sudipta Kaviarj, and Vatsal Naresh have gathered a group of leading scholars across political science, sociology, history, and law to examine this multifaceted topic. Together, they illuminate various trajectories of political thought, state policy, and the exercise of social power during and following a transition to democracy. Just as importantly, they ask us to reflexively examine the political categories and models that shape our understanding of what has unfolded in South Asia and Turkey.

IntroductionKaren Barkey, University of California - Berkeley; Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University; and Vatsal Naresh, Yale UniversitySection I: Historical perspectivesChapter 1: Islam, Modernity, and the Question of Religious Heterodoxy: From Early Modern Empires to Modern Nation-StatesSadia Saeed, University of San FranciscoChapter 2: Liberalism and the Path to Treason in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1923Christine Philliou, University of California-BerkeleyChapter 3: Fatal Love: Intimacy and Interest in Indian Political ThoughtFaisal Devji, University of OxfordChapter 4: Conflict, Secularism, and TolerationUday Singh Mehta, City University of New YorkChapter 5: Representative Democracy and Religious Thought in South Asia: Abul A'la Maududi and Vinayak Damodar SavarkarHumeira Iqtidar, King's College LondonSection II: Genealogies of state and religionChapter 6: Religious Pluralism and the State in India: Towards a TypologyRochana Bajpai, SOAS, University of LondonChapter 7: Is Turkey a Postsecular Society? Secular Differentiation, Committed Pluralism, and Complementary Learning in Contemporary TurkeyAtes Altinordu, Sabanci UniversityChapter 8: The Meaning of Religious Freedom: From Ireland and India to the Islamic Republic of PakistanMatthew J. Nelson, SOAS, University of LondonChapter 9: The Limits of Pluralism: A Perspective on Religious Freedom in Indian Constitutional LawMathew John, Jindal Global Law SchoolChapter 10: Plurality and Pluralism: Democracy, Religious Difference and Political ImaginationSudipta Kaviraj, Columbia UniversitySection III: Violence and dominationChapter 11: Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws vs. Religious FreedomFatima Bokhari, MusawiChapter 12: Modalities of Violence: Lessons from Hindu Nationalist IndiaAmrita Basu, Amherst CollegeChapter 13: Legal Contention and Minorities in Turkey: The Case of the Kurds and AlevisSenem Aslan, Bates CollegeChapter 14: "Stranger, Enemy": Anti-Shia Hostility and Annihilatory Politics in PakistanNosheen Ali, New York UniversityChapter 15: Thinking through Majoritarian Domination in Turkey and IndiaKaren Barkey, University of California - Berkeley; and Vatsal Naresh, Yale University