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

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

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Superior document:Key Issues in Modern Sociology
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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).
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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.