Jonathan Fox

Political Secularism, Religion, and the State

A Time Series Analysis of Worldwide Data

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the competition between religious and secular forces influenced state religion policy between 1990 and 2008.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9781107433915
• ISBN-10: 1107433916
• Artikelnr.: 42018206

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Fox is a Professor of Political Science in the Political Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. He also serves as a director of the Religion and State Project (www.religionandstate.org) and as a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He is the author or editor of nine books including the most widely used textbook on religion and world politics. He currently serves on the editorial or advisory boards of four journals and is the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Article Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Secularism or secularization?
3. Establishment, support, neutrality, or hostility: the varieties of official religion policy
4. State support for religion
5. Regulation, restriction, and control of the majority religion
6. Religious discrimination
7. Education, abortion, and proselytizing
8. Religion in constitutions
9. Conclusions
Appendix A. Data collection and reliability.