Secularism or democracy? : associational governance of religious diversity /
"Established institutions and policies of dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic states are increasingly under pressure. Practical politics and political theory is caught in a trap between a fully secularized state (strict separation of state and politics from completely privati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Amsterdam] :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | IMISCOE research.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction Contested religious pluralism. Part I. Modern states and religions, sociological and historical considerations: setting the stage
- Secularisation and separation? Institutional diversity of religious governance
- Part II. Reconceptualising principles and making political philosophy fit for the task of accommodating religious diversity
- Contextualising morality: moral minimalism, relational neutrality, fairness as even-handedness
- Priority for liberal democracy or secularism? Why I am not a secularist
- Part III. Dilemmas and limits of accommodation, principles and cases: applying moral minimalism
- Religious freedoms and other human rights, moral conundrums and hard cases
- Relational neutrality and even-handedness towards religions: softer cases and symbolic issues
- Part IV. Institutional models of democracy and religious governance: associative democracy
- Moderately agonistic democracy, democratic institutional pluralism, associative democracy and the incorporation of minorities
- Normative models of religious governance: associative democracy, a moral defence
- Dilemmas of institutionalisation; associative democracy, church autonomy and equal treatment of religions
- A realistic defence of associative democracy
- Associative democracy and education
- Conclusions.