Secularism or democracy? : associational governance of religious diversity /

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"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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bader, Veit-Michael
Corporate Author: IMISCOE (Organization)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007.
Series:IMISCOE research.
Subjects:
Democracy > Religious aspects.
Religious pluralism > Political aspects.
Religion and politics.
Secularism.
Religion et politique.
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Sociology.
RELIGION > Religion, Politics & State.
RELIGION > Theology.
Democracy > Religious aspects
Religion and politics
Secularism
Democratie.
Secularisatie (maatschappij)
Geloof.
Diversiteit.
Sociology
Democracy
Religion
Multiculturalism
Associational governance
Philosophy
Law
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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