Chapter 25. Religious Freedom and the Bind of Suspicion in Contemporary Secularity / Hussein Ali Agrama

Hussein Ali Agrama

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Taking as an example the courts of the modern Egyptian state, this essay challenges the assumption that the modern state can be a neutral arbiter between competing systems of beliefs. Agrama argues that in any polity the values of the minority are always more subject to the hermeneutics of suspicion than are those of the majority. This is not a result of the failure of the state to be neutral but is rather inherent to the project of secularism.

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