Religion and the state : : a comparative sociology / / edited by Jack Barbalet, Adam Possamai, Bryan S. Turner.

• Superior document: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• TeilnehmendeR: Barbalet, J. M., 1946-; Possamai, Adam,; Turner, Bryan S.,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Anthem Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

This volume explores key issues in the modern tensions between state and religions by exploring a number of case studies from around the world.

Table of Contents

States, consumption and managing religions / Bryan S. Turner, Adam Possamai and Jack Barbalet -- Religion in liberal and authoritarian states / Bryan S. Turner -- Religion in prisons and in partnership with the state / James A. Beckford -- The secularization thesis and the secular state : reflections with special attention to debates in Australia / Stephen Chavura -- Secularism, religion and the status quo / Gal Levy -- Managing China's Muslim minorities : migration, labor and rise of ethnoreligious consciousness among Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang / Reza Hasmath -- The tension between state and religion in American foreign policy / Douglas Porpora -- Church, state and society in post-communist Europe / Siniša Zrinščak -- Chinese religion, market society and the state / Jack Barbalet -- Hindu normalization, nationalism and consumer mobilization / Arathi Sriprakash and Adam Possamai -- Clash of secularity and religiosity : the staging of secularism and Islam through the icons of Atatürk and the veil in Turkey / Meyda Yeǧenoǧlu -- Gramsci, Jediism, the standardization of popular religion and the state / Adam Possamai -- Concerning the current recompositions of religion and of politics / Patrick Michel -- Public religions and the state : a comparative perspective / Jack Barbalet, Adam Possamai and Bryan S. Turner.