Daphne Halikiopoulou

Patterns of Secularization

Church, State and Nation in Greece and the Republic of Ireland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on David Martin's 'Cultural Defence Paradigm' which expects secularization to be inhibited in cases where religion serves as a carrier of national identity, Patterns of Secularization offers a comparative study highlighting the limits of existing interpretations and identifies variations within the cultural defence paradigm.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781409403456
• ISBN-10: 1409403459
• Artikelnr.: 45162631

Autorenporträt

Daphne Halikiopoulou is Fellow in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Part I Theoretical and Historical Considerations:
National identity and the secularization debate; The origins and
consolidation of 'cultural defence' in Greece and the Republic of Ireland.
Part II Church, State and Nation: Church and state: nationalist
legitimisation versus 'moral monopoly'; Church and nation: external threat
perceptions, national identity and religion. Part III Portrayals of the
Nation in State and Church Discourse: State discourse and the redefinition
of national identity in the Greek and Irish educational systems; Church
discourse and nationalist mobilization. Conclusion: Pattern of
secularization; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.