Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey
In recent years, scholars have sought to create typologies of church-state regimes that incorporate most of the nations of the world. These studies have provided important data and have substantial heuristic value, but they run the risk of oversimplifying the myriad complexities of ongoing debates w...
| Published in: | A journal of church and state |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
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| Review of: | Secularism and state policies toward religion (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Wilcox, Clyde)
Secularism and state policies toward religion (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Wilcox, Clyde) Secularism and state policies toward religion (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Wilcox, Clyde) Secularism and state policies toward religion (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) (Wilcox, Clyde) |
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| Summary: | In recent years, scholars have sought to create typologies of church-state regimes that incorporate most of the nations of the world. These studies have provided important data and have substantial heuristic value, but they run the risk of oversimplifying the myriad complexities of ongoing debates within countries., In this carefully researched study, Ahmet Kuru explores these complexities in great detail, focusing on three countries with contrasting church-state policies and politics. France and Turkey both bar Muslim women from wearing headscarves in universities, but France is a generally secular society where what Kuru calls “assertive secularism” and a “passive secularism” that allows religious symbols and arguments in the public square are debated through democratic institutions. |
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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/csq019 |