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In order to answer the question, Can there be a democratic revolution and a religious revival in the same place, at the same time?, I look at a number of twentieth-century cases (and several eighteenth-century cases) where religion and radical politics interacted – with very different results.
This article originally appeared in Philosophy & Social Criticism (vol. 40, Nos. 4–5), pp. 421–429, Copyright © 2014 by (Special Issue: Alessandro Ferrara , Volker Kaul, David Rasmussen (eds.), “From the Erosion of the Nation-State to the Rise of Political Islam. Reset-Dialogues İstanbul Seminars 2013”). Reprinted by Permission of SAGE Publications, Ltd.
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Walzer, M. (2016). After the Arab Spring. In: Benhabib, S., Kaul, V. (eds) Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics. Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41821-6_4
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