Secularism Or Democracy?: Associational Governance of Religious Diversity

Secularism Or Democracy?: Associational Governance of Religious Diversity
ISBN-10
9053569995
ISBN-13
9789053569993
Category
Social Science
Pages
386
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Author
Veit-Michael Bader

Description

Policies dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic states—as well as the established institutions that enforce those policies—are increasingly under pressure. Politics and political theory are caught in a trap between the fully secularized state and neo-corporate regimes of selective cooperation between states and organized religion. This volume proposes an original, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach to problems of governing religious diversity—combining moral and political philosophy, constitutional law, history, sociology, and religious anthropology. Drawing on such diverse scholarship, Secularism or Democracy? proposes an associational governance—a moderately libertarian, flexible variety of democratic institutional pluralism—as the plausible third way to overcome the inherent deficiencies of the predominant models.

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