Religion and democracy
By: edited by David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780631221845
Subjects: Democracy; Aspect religieux; Church and state; Religious aspects; Religion and politics; Etudes comparatives; Sécularisation; Religion et politique; Secularisatie (maatschappij); Démocratie; Religion et État; Geloof; Religion et Etat; Democratie
Description: 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. Today, organized religion is still a powerful political force in most parts of the world. But is it an ally or an enemy of pluralist democracy?
Table of contents: title: Foreword / David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler; title: Secularism? / John Keane; title: Living with difference in India / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd Rudolph; title: Religion and democracy in Israel / Emanuele Ottolenghi; title: Islam, politics and democracy: Mohamed Talbi and Islamic modernism / Ronald L. Nettler; title: Trajectories of political Islam: Egypt, Iran and Turkey / Sami Zubaida; title: American fundamentalism and the selling of God / Harold Perkin; title: The quiet continent: religion and politics in Europe / Colin Crouch; title: J.N. Figgis, churches and the state / Paul Hirst; title: Making the Christian world safe for liberalism: from Grotius to Rawls / Timothy Samuel Shah.