Legitimacy Gap: Secularism, Religion, and Culture in Comparative Constitutional Law|
Vincent Depaigne
Oxford University Press Academic 2017

• A synthetic approach to the contemporary debates on secularism and religion
• An overview of the constitutional legal issues related to religion, culture, and secularism
• Original comparative approach (contrasting examples from Asia and Europe) that facilitates a better understanding of the secular-religious dynamics
• A comprehensive overview of the most important theories of the modern state
• Demonstrates how a better understanding of the cultural context can help policy makers understand how the secular and religious dimensions can be reconciled
• Comparative approach that avoids the classical oppositions Islam-West, East-West but looks rather at how different models reconcile religion and secularism (also underlining the faults in each model)