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Secular States and Religious Diversity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethnicity and Democratic Governance SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (348 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774825146
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secular States and Religious DiversityDDC classification:
  • 322/.1
LOC classification:
  • BL65.P7.S43 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Examines the limitations and dilemmas of government responses to religious diversity and how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism.
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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.

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