Church and State in Contemporary Europe

ISBN-13: 9780714683294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 252 str.

John T. S. Madeley; Zsolt Enyedi

Opis

This volume represents an attempt in integrating a wide range of theoretically relevant issues into the identification and analysis of church-state patterns. Confessional heritage, national identity, the embeddedness of churches in civil society, formal and informal aspects of state religious neutrality (and its limits), secularization, the religious appeals of parties, and public policy formation in sensitive areas constitute the major contextural variables. Each chapter, in addition to discussing recent developments in a particular country or region of Europe, focuses on the analysis of one or other of the above mentioned themes and its role in shaping and/or being shaped by, church-state relations.

Recenzje

'A study which offers a solid conceptual framework for the analysis of recent developments.' - Ecclesiastical Law Journal

Spis treści

European liberal democracy and the principle of stae religious neutrality, John T.S. Madeley; a framework for the comparative analysis of Church-State relations in Europe, John T.S. Madeley; Church-State separation Swedish-style, Goran Gustafsson; the illusion of State neutrality in a secularizing Ireland, Bill Kissane; the Italian State - no longer Catholic, no longer Christian, Mark Donovan; orthodoxy and nationalism in the Greek case, George Mavrogordatos; Catholicism and democratic consolidation in Spain and Poland, John Anderson; the contested politics of positive neutrality in Hungary, Zsolt Enyedi; the Catholic Church and civil society - democratic options in the post-Communist Czech Republic, Joan O'Mahony; the policy impact of Church-State relations - family policy and abortion in Britain, France and Germany, Michael Minkenberg; conclusion - emerging issues in the study of Church-State relations, Zsolt Enyedi.

O autorze

Zsolt Enyedi, John T.S. Madeley