HOW DOES SECULARISM IMPACT RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE?

Saba Mahmood, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2016) (From the back cover: "The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. . . Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them.")