Ahmet T. Kuru

Secularism and State Policies toward Religion (eBook, PDF)

The United States, France, and Turkey

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion, whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility, as seen in their bans on Muslim headscarves. In the United States, the dominant ideology is 'passive secularism', which requires the state to play a passive role, by allowing public visibility of religion. Dominant ideology in France and Turkey is 'assertive secularism', which demands that the state play an assertive role in excluding religion from the public sphere. Passive and assertive secularism became dominant in these cases through certain historical processes, particularly the presence or absence of an ancien regime based on the marriage between monarchy and hegemonic religion during state-building periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511530647
• Artikelnr.: 38210117

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).