TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bader,Veit-Michael
ED  - IMISCOE (Organization)
TI  - Secularism or democracy?: associational governance of religious diversity 
T2  - IMISCOE research
SN  - 9789048501922 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL65.P7 B334 2007eb
U1  - 201/.72 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - [Amsterdam]
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religious pluralism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Secularism
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Religion, Politics & State
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Democratie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Secularisatie (maatschappij)
KW  - Geloof
KW  - Diversiteit
KW  - Society and social sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Sociology and anthropology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Religion
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Associational governance
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Law
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-366) and index; Detailed contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Modern states and religious, sociological and historical considerations: setting the stage; Ch. 1: Secularisation and seperation? Institutional diversity of religious governace; Part 2: Reconceptualising principles and making political philosophy fit for the task of accommodating religious diversity; Ch. 2: Contextualising morality: moral minimalism, relational neutrality, and fairnee as even-handedness; Ch. 3: Priority for liberal democracy or secularism?: Why I am not a secularist; Part 3
N2  - "Established institutions and policies of dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic states are increasingly under pressure. Practical politics and political theory is caught in a trap between a fully secularized state (strict separation of state and politics from completely privatized religions based on an idealized version of American denominationalism or French republicanism) and neo-corporatist or 'pillarized' regimes of selective cooperation between states and organized religions. The book offers an original, comprehensive conceptual, theoretical and practical approach to problems of governance of religious diversity from a multi-disciplinary perspective combining moral and political philosophy, constitutional law, history, sociology and anthropology of religions and comparative institutionalism. Proposals of associative democracy - a moderately libertarian, flexible version of democratic institutional pluralism - are introduced and scrutinized whether they can serve as as plausible third way overcoming the inherent deficiencies of the predominant models in theory and practice"--Publisher's description
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