Ahmet T. Kuru

Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion

The United States, France, and Turkey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780521741347
• ISBN-10: 0521741343
• Artikelnr.: 26526423

Autorenporträt

Ahmet T. Kuru is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at and Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at SIPA of Columbia University. His dissertation, on which this book is based, received the Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation from the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of several articles that have appeared in journals such as World Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Science Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Analyzing secularism: history, ideology, and policy; Part I. The United
States: 2. Passive secularism and the Christian right's challenge
(1981-2008); 3. Religious diversity and the evolution of passive secularism
(1776-1981); Part II. France: 4. Assertive secularism and the
multiculturalist challenge (1989-2008); 5. The war of two Frances and the
rise of assertive secularism (1789-1989); Part III. Turkey: 6. Assertive
secularism and the Islamic challenge (1997-2008); 7. Westernization and the
emergence of assertive secularism (1826-1997).