Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey (Religion, Culture, and Public Life) While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, and religious context for this behavior, the essays in Democracy, [...] Read more »
RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY
RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY I had written an article long time back about Religion and fanaticism and about how religious dogmas give rise to fanatics and fanaticism. While writing that article I came upon a thought about whether religion suppresses democracy or whether democracy suppresses religion. Either way the effect would be explosive as in [...] Read more »