The Secular and the Sacred Nation Religion and Politics 1st Edition by William Safran 0714683019 9780714683010

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ISBN 10: 0714683019 

ISBN 13: 9780714683010

Author: William Safran

What is the place of religion in modern political systems? This volume addresses that question by focusing on ten countries across several geographic areas: Western and East-Central Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Asia. These countries are comparable in the sense that they are committed to constitutional rule, have embraced a more or less secular culture, and have formal guarantees of freedom of religion. Yet in all the cases examined here religion impinges on the political system in the form of legal establishment, semi-legitimation, subvention, and/or selective institutional arrangements and its role is reflected in cultural norms, electoral behaviour and public policies. The relationship between religion and politics comes in many varieties in differing countries, yet all are faced with three major challenges: modernity, democracy and the increasingly multi-ethnic and multi-religious nature of their societies.

Table of contents:

1. INTRODUCTION
NOTES

2. RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
INTRODUCTION: RELIGION AND AMERICAN POLITICAL VALUES
RELIGION IN A MODERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: TWO THEORIES
JUDICIAL ‘INCONSISTENCY: THE RIVALRY BETWEEN SEPARATION AND ACCOMMODATION
RELIGION AND THE ACCOMMODATION OF DIVISION
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3. RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES
SECULARIZATION AND MODERNIZATION THEORY
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICA’S SOCIAL SYSTEM
ILLUSTRATION: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT
CONCLUSION
NOTES

4. RELIGION AND LAÏCITÉ IN A JACOBIN REPUBLIC: THE CASE OF FRANCE
INTRODUCTION: FROM STATE RELIGION TO LAÏCITÉ
RELIGIOUS MINORITIES: BACKGROUNDS, POSITIONS AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES
THE REPUBLIC, EDUCATION AND RELIGION
THE STATE, THE CHURCH AND THE POPE
CURRENT PROBLEMS AND UNSETTLED QUESTIONS
NOTES

5. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RELIGION IN BRITISH POLITICS
INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
CHRISTIANITY AND BRITISH WORKING-CLASS POLITICS
BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES AND RELIGION
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
POST-WORLD WAR II DEVELOPMENTS
RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES AND THE BRITISH POST-WORLD WAR II EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
BLASPHEMY LAWS
PARTIES, VOTING PATTERNS AND RELIGIONS
POLITICAL INTERESTS AND LABELS
CONCLUSIONS
NOTES

6. RELIGION, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND
THE DOMINANCE OF RELIGIOUS LABELLING
THREE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CONFLICT
CRITICISM OF RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATIONS
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT
CATHOLICS AND THE SOUTH
CONCLUSION
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7. CHURCH AND STATE AFTER TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY: THE CASE OF SPAIN
BACKGROUND
THE DEMOCRATIC PERIOD
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8. POLAND’S TRANSITION TO A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: THE TAMING OF THE SACRED?
CATHOLICISM IN POLAND: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
SACRALIZING THE SECULAR UNDER COMMUNISM
THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT? SACRALIZATION OF POLITICS IN THE 1990S
CLERICAL POLITICAL PARTIES
SOCIETAL VALUES
THE CHURCH IN THE POLICY PROCESS
CONCLUSION
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9. GREECE: A PROBLEMATIC SECULAR STATE
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS
RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
GREEK ORTHODOXY—A MARKER OF GREEKNESS
CONCLUSION
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10. RELIGION AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY: THE ETHNOPOLITICAL BARRIERS TO DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE BALKANS
ETHNICITY, DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE
RELIGION AS POLITICS AND MEMORY IN THE BALKANS
CONCLUSION
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11. RELIGION, POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY
INTRODUCTION
ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
THE STATE, ISLAM AND POLITICAL PARTIES
CIVIL SOCIETY AND ISLAM
POLITICAL CULTURE AND ISLAM
ISLAMISTS, THE MILITARY AND POLITICS
CONCLUSION
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12. RELIGION AND STATE IN ISRAEL: ANOTHER ROUND OF AN ANCIENT CONFLICT AMONG THE JEWS
WHY IS THERE CHRONIC CONFLICT AMONG ISRAELI JEWS ABOUT RELIGION IN THE JEWISH STATE?
THE AGENDA OF DISPUTE
DISPUTES AMONG THE RELIGIOUS
RITUALIZED CONFLICT WITH NEGLIGIBLE RESULTS
THE SPECIAL CASE OF NON-ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS JEWS
EXPLAINING THE WEAKNESS OF NON-ORTHODOX JUDAISMS IN ISRAEL
POINTS OF COMPARISON
EPILOGUE: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF 2001
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13. SECULARISM IN INDIA: ACCEPTED PRINCIPLE, CONTENTIOUS INTERPRETATION
SECULARISM IN THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION
RELIGION AND THE POLITY—A BRIEF HISTORICAL REVIEW
COLONIAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIEWS—THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN THE POLITY
SECULARISM AND DEMOCRACY
SUMMARY CONCLUSION

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