[Rezension von: Chavura, Stephen A., Reason, religion, and the Australian polity]
This book is an outstanding and significant work in church-state studies. It is an extensive historical analysis of the relationship between church and state in Australia, also engaging with theoretical literature to interrogate the idea that Australia is a “secular state” (pp. 6–7, 19–23). It provi...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2021]
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 147-149 |
| Review of: | Reason, religion, and the Australian polity (Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019) (Deagon, Alex)
Reason, religion, and the Australian polity (Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,, 2019) (Deagon, Alex) Reason, Religion, and the Australian Polity (Milton : Routledge, 2019) (Deagon, Alex) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
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/ Australia
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBS Australia; Oceania SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | This book is an outstanding and significant work in church-state studies. It is an extensive historical analysis of the relationship between church and state in Australia, also engaging with theoretical literature to interrogate the idea that Australia is a “secular state” (pp. 6–7, 19–23). It provides an insightful commentary on what it means for a pluralistic liberal democracy like Australia to be “secular.” This is a particularly difficult question given Australia’s institutional separation of church and state, which sits in tension with an explicit acknowledgment of God in its Constitution, the mixing of religion and politics through parliamentary prayers and government... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa093 |