The Secular and the Sacred: Nation, Religion and Politics

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Tables......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 Introduction......Page 9
NOTES......Page 18
INTRODUCTION: RELIGION AND AMERICAN POLITICAL VALUES......Page 20
RELIGION IN A MODERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: TWO THEORIES......Page 27
JUDICIAL ‘INCONSISTENCY: THE RIVALRY BETWEEN SEPARATION AND ACCOMMODATION......Page 29
RELIGION AND THE ACCOMMODATION OF DIVISION......Page 32
NOTES......Page 34
SECULARIZATION AND MODERNIZATION THEORY......Page 38
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM......Page 39
Disestablishment and Religious Liberty......Page 40
The Two-Party System......Page 41
CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICA’S SOCIAL SYSTEM......Page 42
Immigration......Page 43
Religious Individualism......Page 44
Churches as ‘Social Precincts’......Page 45
ILLUSTRATION: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT......Page 46
Religious Tradition and Theological Location......Page 47
CONCLUSION......Page 55
NOTES......Page 56
INTRODUCTION: FROM STATE RELIGION TO LAICITE......Page 59
The Protestants......Page 64
The Jews......Page 65
The Muslims......Page 68
THE REPUBLIC, EDUCATION AND RELIGION......Page 71
THE STATE, THE CHURCH AND THE POPE......Page 77
CURRENT PROBLEMS AND UNSETTLED QUESTIONS......Page 78
NOTES......Page 81
INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND......Page 86
BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES AND RELIGION......Page 88
Northern Ireland......Page 89
The ‘Established’ Anglican Church in the Post—World War II Years......Page 90
Postcolonialism and the Impact of non-Judeo-Christian Religions......Page 91
Islamic Influences on British Policies......Page 92
Immigrant Christian Groups......Page 93
Rastafarians......Page 94
RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES AND THE BRITISH POST-WORLD WAR II EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM......Page 95
BLASPHEMY LAWS......Page 96
PARTIES, VOTING PATTERNS AND RELIGIONS......Page 97
POLITICAL INTERESTS AND LABELS......Page 98
CONCLUSIONS......Page 99
NOTES......Page 101
6 Religion, National Identity and the Conflict in Northern Ireland......Page 104
THE DOMINANCE OF RELIGIOUS LABELLING......Page 105
THREE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CONFLICT......Page 108
CRITICISM OF RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATIONS......Page 113
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT......Page 114
CATHOLICS AND THE SOUTH......Page 118
CONCLUSION......Page 120
NOTES......Page 122
The Process of Secularization......Page 124
The Process of Political Transition to Democracy......Page 126
THE DEMOCRATIC PERIOD......Page 127
A New Non-Confessional State: The Church-State Relationship......Page 128
The Catholic Church and the Autonomous Cultural Identities......Page 129
Vote and Religious Stance......Page 131
Between Religious Privatization and Civil Society......Page 132
NOTES......Page 135
CATHOLICISM IN POLAND: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND......Page 138
SACRALIZING THE SECULAR UNDER COMMUNISM......Page 140
THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT? SACRALIZATION OF POLITICS IN THE 1990S......Page 145
CLERICAL POLITICAL PARTIES......Page 146
SOCIETAL VALUES......Page 147
THE CHURCH IN THE POLICY PROCESS......Page 148
CONCLUSION......Page 151
NOTES......Page 152
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND......Page 155
CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS......Page 157
RELIGIOUS MINORITIES......Page 159
GREEK ORTHODOXY—A MARKER OF GREEKNESS......Page 161
CONCLUSION......Page 163
NOTES......Page 165
10 Religion and Collective Identity: The Ethnopolitical Barriers to Democratization in the Balkans......Page 169
ETHNICITY, DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE......Page 170
RELIGION AS POLITICS AND MEMORY IN THE BALKANS......Page 175
CONCLUSION......Page 180
NOTES......Page 181
INTRODUCTION......Page 187
ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES......Page 189
THE STATE, ISLAM AND POLITICAL PARTIES......Page 192
CIVIL SOCIETY AND ISLAM......Page 197
POLITICAL CULTURE AND ISLAM......Page 202
ISLAMISTS, THE MILITARY AND POLITICS......Page 204
CONCLUSION......Page 207
NOTES......Page 209
WHY IS THERE CHRONIC CONFLICT AMONG ISRAELI JEWS ABOUT RELIGION IN THE JEWISH STATE?......Page 214
THE AGENDA OF DISPUTE......Page 217
DISPUTES AMONG THE RELIGIOUS......Page 218
RITUALIZED CONFLICT WITH NEGLIGIBLE RESULTS......Page 219
THE SPECIAL CASE OF NON-ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS JEWS......Page 222
Conversion......Page 223
Marriage......Page 224
Divorce......Page 225
Burial......Page 226
Non-Orthodox Rites at the Western Wall......Page 227
The Appointment of Non-Orthodox Members to Local Religious Councils......Page 228
Where Things Stand: Who Is Winning?......Page 229
POINTS OF COMPARISON......Page 230
EPILOGUE: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF 2001......Page 231
NOTES......Page 233
SECULARISM IN THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION......Page 236
RELIGION AND THE POLITY—A BRIEF HISTORICAL REVIEW......Page 240
COLONIAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIEWS—THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN THE POLITY......Page 243
SECULARISM AND DEMOCRACY......Page 246
SUMMARY CONCLUSION......Page 248
NOTES......Page 249
Notes on Contributors......Page 253
Index......Page 255