Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Church in Its Relation to the State ... Third Edition, Revised
Author: The Westminster Review
Author: Church-state Relations
Author: Thomas RobbinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000159787
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Encounters between agents of the state and religious organizations have been increasing throughout the world, thus the need to understand the relationships between religion and other major domains of life is increasingly important. In this comprehensive reader on church-state relations, scholars examine the connections between religion and political life from a comparative perspective.
Saturday Review
Author: The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review
Author: Cyclopaedia Bibliographica
Author: James Darling (Publisher)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The Challenge of Pluralism
Author: J. Christopher SoperPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442250445
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies, these countries share a commitment to protecting the religious rights of their citizens. The book demonstrates, however, that each has taken substantially different approaches to resolving basic church-state questions. The authors examine both the historical roots of those differences and more recent conflicts over Islam and other religious minorities, explain how contemporary church-state issues are addressed, and provide a framework for assessing the success of each of the six states in protecting the religious rights of its citizens using a framework based on the ideal of governmental neutrality and evenhandedness toward people of all faiths and of none. Responding to the general confusion about the relationship between church and state in the West, this book offers a much-needed comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a source of political conflict. The authors argue that the US conception of church-state separation, with its emphasis on avoiding government establishment of religion, is unique among political democracies and discriminates against religious groups by denying religious organizations access to government services provided to other organizations. The authors persuasively conclude that the United States can learn a great deal from other Western nations in promoting religious neutrality and the free exercise of religion.
Catalogue of the Library of Parliament
Author: Canada. Library of ParliamentPublisher: The Library
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
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