Church and State in 21st Century Britain: The Future of Church Establishment

Once a rather obscure subject, the nature of church-state relations has again become a lively topic. In part this is because the migration of non-Christians to the West has challenged the various arrangements that evolved in the nineteenth century as Christian monopoly churches were challenged by Ch...

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1. VerfasserIn: Bruce, Steve (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press 2010
In: A journal of church and state
Jahr: 2010, Band: 52, Heft: 1, Seiten: 171-172
Rezension von:Church and state in 21st century Britain (Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (Bruce, Steve)
Church and state in 21st century Britain (Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (Bruce, Steve)
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Zusammenfassung:Once a rather obscure subject, the nature of church-state relations has again become a lively topic. In part this is because the migration of non-Christians to the West has challenged the various arrangements that evolved in the nineteenth century as Christian monopoly churches were challenged by Christian dissent. Renewed interest has also been sparked by attempts to explain national differences in the degree of secularization by some version of Alexis de Toqueville's classic observation on the contrast between France's stagnant but monopolistic religious culture and America's vibrant but competitive religious market.
ISSN:2040-4867
Enthält:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq034