[Rezension von: Religion, rights and secular society]
This book aims at presenting an overview of “the ways in which religion and equivalent belief are currently protected in Europe” (p. 4), with this provided through two approaches. First, the main part of the book consists of a review of the situation in Europe through the presentation of different c...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2015, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 171-173 |
| Review of: | Religion, rights and secular society (Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2012) (Zwilling, Anne-Laure)
Religion, Rights and Secular Society (Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) (Zwilling, Anne-Laure) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Secularism
/ Europe
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | This book aims at presenting an overview of “the ways in which religion and equivalent belief are currently protected in Europe” (p. 4), with this provided through two approaches. First, the main part of the book consists of a review of the situation in Europe through the presentation of different countries taken as illustrations. This review takes into account countries of Western Europe, starting with three countries in which Protestantism has played an important historical role (the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany). It then turns to countries in which the dominant religious group has historically been the Roman Catholic Church, describing the situation in Ireland, Spain, Italy, and France. Countries where freedom of religious belief had to meet important challenges are then analyzed. The editors selected Cyprus, where the present state is the result of occupation, as well as several former Communist countries (Hungary; a group formed by Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland; and the Balkans). The range of countries selected allows an interesting diversity of presentation. For instance, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany have integrated in various ways a Protestantism that is also specific to each of these countries. Likewise, the different historically Catholic countries present very different sides of Catholicism as well as very different results of the influence of religion on the country. Thus, these contributions both underline and demonstrate the weight and importance of history as a factor for the current situation ... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu113 |