Western Europe and Australia: negotiating freedoms of religion

Newly established religious minorities in Western European countries and Australia have sparked fresh questions about the public place of religion. The current situation in the region reflects a certain agonism over the place of public religion and its relation to liberal secular order. This has esp...

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Authors: Sealy, Thomas (Author) ; Modood, Tariq 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2022
In: Religion, state & society
Year: 2022, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Pages: 378-395
Further subjects:B Laïcité
B Religious Diversity
B moderate secularism
B Freedom Of Religion
B Secularism
B Western Europe
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Summary:Newly established religious minorities in Western European countries and Australia have sparked fresh questions about the public place of religion. The current situation in the region reflects a certain agonism over the place of public religion and its relation to liberal secular order. This has especially been the case for the region’s Muslims in a context marked by fears of radicalisation and extremism. This contribution considers these responses in relation to Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK; and Australia. The contribution explores the norm of freedom of religion that forms the region’s core similarity but also the ground on which divergences in norms of state-religion connections can be found. It identifies key norms that operate in the region in order to draw out similarities as well as important differences between the countries. Exploring how the governance of religious diversity comes to reflect diversity-enhancing or diversity-limiting features, it assesses the ways and extent to which the region can be characterised under ‘moderate secularism’.
ISSN:1465-3974
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2119825