Secularism or democracy? : : associational governance of religious diversity / / Veit Bader.

• Superior document: IMISCOE research
• Author: Bader, Veit-Michael.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE research.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (387 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A landmark study offering a unique alternative direction to contain and forestall religious conflict.

Table of Contents

Summary contents; 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

Ch. 4: Religious freedoms and other human rights, moral conundrums and hard casesCh. 5: Relational neutrality and even-handedness toward religions: softer cases and symbolic isseus; Part 4: Institutional models of democracy and religious governance: associative democracy; Ch. 6: Moderately agonistic democracy, democratic institutional pluralism, associative democracy and the incorporation of minorities; Ch. 7: Normative models of religious governance: associative democracy, a moral defence

Ch. 8: Dilemmas of institutionalisation: associative democracy, church atonomy and equal treatment of religiousCh. 9: A realistic defence of associative democracy; Ch. 10: Associative democracy and education; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index of Names; Index of subjects