Faithful to Secularism : : The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines / / David Buckley.
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America, re...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion, Culture, and Public Life ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Benevolent Secularism: A Theory of the Religious Politics of Democracy
- 2. Secular Emergence in Ireland: Home Rule and Rome Rule?
- 3. Secular Evolution in Ireland: Religion and Post-Catholic Politics
- 4. Secular Emergence in Senegal: Laïcité in Translation
- 5. Secular Evolution in Senegal: Sopi and Institutional Change
- 6. Secular Emergence in the Philippines: Beyond the Malolos Stalemate
- 7. Secular Evolution in the Philippines: People Power and Pluralization
- Conclusion: The Future of Religion and Secular Democracy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index