What constitutes the core values, tenets, cultural, historic, and ideological parameters of secularism in international contexts? In twelve chapters, this edited work examines current tensions in liberal secular states where myriad rights and freedoms compete regarding education, healthcare, end-of-life choices, clothing, sexual orientation, reproduction, and minority interests.
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.
Cyprus which is autocephalous, in other words independent from the Greek Orthodox Church, is constitutionally ... to Mosques and any other Moslem religious institution, shall be governed solely by and under the Laws and Principles of ...
I agree wholeheartedly with Berlinerblau s argument and highly recommend this powerful book. Mario M. Cuomo, former governor of the state of New York This book brought tears to my secular Jewish eyes, it was so good.
What is secularism?
This book examines the political and religious context in which the Constitution and The Bill of Rights were adopted. Swomley reasons that those who wrote and adopted the Constitution and...
Chavura, Stephen, John Gascoigne and Ian Tregenza. Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity: A Secular State? London: Routledge, 2019. Connolly, William. Why I Am Not a Secularist. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries.
Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges.