Secular States and Religious Diversity.
Berman, Bruce J.
Secular States and Religious Diversity. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (348 pages) - Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Series . - Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: Historical and Theoretical Approaches -- 1 Religious Pluralism as a Self-Evident Problem in the Context of Globalization -- 2 Secular Modernity, Religion, and the Politics of Knowledge -- 3 Can Secularism Be Rehabilitated? -- PART 2: Secularisms in the West -- 4 Between Secularism and Postsecularism -- 5 Tolerance and Accommodation as Vestiges of the Empire -- 6 In God We Trust? -- 7 Ideologies, Institutions, and Laws -- PART 3: Secularisms beyond the West -- 8 State Intervention in the Reform of a "Religion of Rules" -- 9 Something Got Lost in Translation -- 10 The Changing State Monopoly on Religion and Secular Views in Thailand -- 11 State-Society Structures and the Frustration of Movements for Secular Reforms in Lebanon -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.
Examines the limitations and dilemmas of government responses to religious diversity and how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism.
9780774825146
Religion and politics.
Religion and state.
Religious pluralism -- Political aspects.
Secularism -- Political aspects.
Electronic books.
BL65.P7.S43 2013eb
322/.1
Secular States and Religious Diversity. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (348 pages) - Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Series . - Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: Historical and Theoretical Approaches -- 1 Religious Pluralism as a Self-Evident Problem in the Context of Globalization -- 2 Secular Modernity, Religion, and the Politics of Knowledge -- 3 Can Secularism Be Rehabilitated? -- PART 2: Secularisms in the West -- 4 Between Secularism and Postsecularism -- 5 Tolerance and Accommodation as Vestiges of the Empire -- 6 In God We Trust? -- 7 Ideologies, Institutions, and Laws -- PART 3: Secularisms beyond the West -- 8 State Intervention in the Reform of a "Religion of Rules" -- 9 Something Got Lost in Translation -- 10 The Changing State Monopoly on Religion and Secular Views in Thailand -- 11 State-Society Structures and the Frustration of Movements for Secular Reforms in Lebanon -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.
Examines the limitations and dilemmas of government responses to religious diversity and how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism.
9780774825146
Religion and politics.
Religion and state.
Religious pluralism -- Political aspects.
Secularism -- Political aspects.
Electronic books.
BL65.P7.S43 2013eb
322/.1