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Secularism and state policies toward religion : the United States, France, and Turkey /
"Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes why American st...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion, whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility, as seen in their bans on Muslim headscarves. In the United States, the dominant ideology is "passive secularism," which requires the state to play a passive role, by allowing public visibility of religion. Dominant ideology in France and Turkey is "assertive secularism," which demands that the state play an assertive role in excluding religion from the public sphere. Passive and assertive secularism became dominant in these cases through certain historical processes, particularly the presence or absence of an ancien régime based on the marriage between monarchy and hegemonic religion during state-building periods."--Publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 313 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511650475 0511650477 9780511533709 0511533705 9780511815096 0511815093 1107191459 9781107191457 0511532792 9780511532795 0511531885 9780511531880 |