Passive and assertive secularism: historical conditions, ideological struggles, and state politics toward religion
Why do secular states pursue substantially different policies toward religion? The United States, France, and Turkey are secular states that lack any official religion and have legal systems free from religious control. The French and Turkish states have banned students' headscarves in public s...
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| 格式: | Print Article |
| 語言: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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World politics
Year: 2007, 卷: 59, 發布: 4, Pages: 568-594 |
| Further subjects: | B
國家
B 宗教政策 B Usa B Frankreich B Vereinigte Staaten Frankreich Türkei 國家 世俗化 Historische Faktoren 意識形態 宗教政策 國際比較 / Ländervergleich B 歷史 B Einflussgröße B 意識形態 B 世俗化 B 國際比較 B Türkei |
| 總結: | Why do secular states pursue substantially different policies toward religion? The United States, France, and Turkey are secular states that lack any official religion and have legal systems free from religious control. The French and Turkish states have banned students' headscarves in public schools, whereas the U.S. has allowed students to wear religious symbols and attire. Using the method of process tracing, the author argues that state policies toward religion are the result of ideological struggles. In France and Turkey the dominant ideology is "assertive secularism," which aims to exclude religion from the public sphere, while in the U.S., it is "passive secularism," which tolerates public visibility of religion. Whether assertive or passive secularism became dominant in a particular case was the result of the particular historical conditions during the secular state-building period, especially the presence or absence of an ancien régime based on a marriage of monarchy and hegemonic religion. (World Politics / SWP) |
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| 實物描述: | Tab., Lit.Hinw. |
| ISSN: | 0043-8871 |
| Contains: | In: World politics
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