Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)

ISBN 10: 0857287982 / ISBN 13: 9780857287984

Editore: Anthem Press, 2011

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• Titolo: Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0857287982
• ISBN 13: 9780857287984
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

This volume addresses a central problem of contemporary states, namely how to manage the eruption of public religions. While the liberal framework formerly regarded religion as simply a matter of private practice and conscience, in modern states religion has often come to challenge the so-called Westphalian model of church-state relations, and has brought into question many liberal notions of secularism and tolerance. There is much discussion about post-secular society in which religion has to be taken seriously in public affairs. This collection of case studies – looking at Turkey, Singapore, India, China, Britain, Europe and the United States – explores a number of examples in which the state exercises some degree of management of religion, thereby bringing into question the traditional separation of religion and state. This study also attempts to refine the notion of secularization by examining this process in terms of political arrangements (church-state relations) and the role of religion in everyday life. Ultimately, this study reveals that there is no uniform or standard pattern of secularization in modern societies.

With a clear statement of the theoretical issues in the debates about secularization and post-secularism, ‘Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology’ considers a number of major case studies – from China, Europe, Singapore and South Asia – in order to understand the rise of public religions in the modern state. By distinguishing between political secularization – the separation of state and religion – and social secularization – the transformation of the everyday practice of religion – this volume offers an integrating framework within which to analyze these different societies.

Informazioni sugli autori

Jack Barbalet is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Adam Possamai is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney and President of the Research Committee on Religion at the International Sociological Association.

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Western Sydney. 

Jack Barbalet is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Adam Possamai is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney and President of the Research Committee on Religion at the International Sociological Association.

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Western Sydney.