Religious Politics and Secular States fills this gap by situating this trend within long-standing debates over the proper role of religion in public life.
Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world
Should the state be secular or religious. Here the author seeks to determine the extent of the role of religion in political life.
Religious Politics & Secular States: Egypt, India, and the United States
Freedom of Religion and the Secular State offers a comprehensive analysis, with a global focus, of the subject of religious freedom from a legal as well as historical and philosophical viewpoint.
In Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada, edited by Paul Bramadat and David Seljak, 330-64. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Martin, David. 2000. “Canada in Comparative Perspective.” In Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: ...
This volume brings in perspectives from the non-Western world and engages with viewpoints that might increase states' capacities to accommodate religious diversity positively.
Shepard, Todd. 2006. The Invention ofDecoloniZation: The Algerian War and the Remaking ... In The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life, edited by Christian Smith.
In a comparison of Western Europe and North America, Christianity and Islam, Joppke advances far-reaching theoretical, historical, and comparative-political arguments.
This book examines 111 types of state religion policy in 177 countries between 1990 and 2008.
While the Religious Right has received considerable scholarly attention and media coverage in recent years, the story of the growing number of Secular Americans—those who identify themselves as atheists, agnostics, or as not having any ...