Rebuilding a Confessional State: Islamic Ecclesiology in Turkey, Russia and China

Religions are playing an ever more prominent role in the public sphere in the world today, and it hardly seems productive to examine religion-state relations from the traditional liberal standpoint of idealising the state's non-intervention in religious matters. In this article we examine the r...

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Authors: Matsuzato, Kimitaka (Author) ; Sawae, Fumiko (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2010
In: Religion, state & society
Year: 2010, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 331-360
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