Religion, state, and society
Subtitle: Jefferson's wall of separation in comparative perspective
By: edited by Robert Fatton, Jr. and R.J. Ramazani.
Contributors: Fatton, Robert.; Ramazani, Rouhollah K., 1928-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826; Church and state -- United States; Religion and politics; Freedom of religion; United States -- Church history
Description: This book examines the relationship between religion and the state in a comparative perspective with special attention paid to the Western and Middle-Eastern experiences. It examines the resurgence of fundamentalism not only in developing nations but also in economically affluent post-modern societies. It seeks to elucidate whether the fusion between religion and politics is compatible with tolerance and individual freedom; or whether the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" is necessary to insure the flowering of democracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy; title: Introduction / Robert Fatton, Jr. and R.K. Ramazani; title: The American experience : the Jeffersonian wall of separation between church and state; title: Thomas Jefferson's Christian nation / Peter Onuf; title: Beyond Locke, beyond belief : the nexus of free exercise and aeparation of church and state / Jack N. Rakove; title: Separation abroad : how long the Jeffersonian shadow? / Robert M. O'Neil; title: The road from Monticello : the influence of the American constitutional experience in other lands / A.E. Dick Howard; title: The wall of separation and western perspectives; title: Secularism, liberalism, and the problem of tolerance / Adam B. Seligman; title: America's secular state and the unsecular state of Europe / John T.S. Madeley; title: Christianity, violence, and democracy : socio-historical selection from a basic religious repertoire / David Martin; title: Middle-eastern perspectives; title: Religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa / William B. Quandt; title: Revisiting Jefferson's wall from a contemporary middle eastern perspective / Ann Elizabeth Mayer; title: Constitutionalizing Islam in the Arab world / Nathan J. Brown; title: Religion and state in the state of Israel / David Goldberg and Bernard Reich.