State and Religion: The Australian Story

ISBN-13: 9781138684539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 342 str.

Renae Barker

Opis

With its increasingly secular and religiously diverse population Australia faces many challenges in determining how the state and religion should interact. Australia is not unique in facing these challenges. States worldwide, including common law countries with shared legal and religious heritages, have also been faced with the question of how the state and religion should relate to one another. Countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States have all had to grapple with how to manage the state-religion relationship in the present day. This book provides a comprehensive historical review of the interaction of the state and religion in Australia. It brings together multiple examples of areas in which the state and religion interact, and reviews these examples across Australia's history from settlement through to the present day. The book sets this story within a wider context comparing Australian responses to those in countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and New Zealand. The book explores theories of church and state and applies these theories to the Australian context. The book demonstrates how the solution arrived at in Australia is just one possible outcome among many that have been tried in common law liberal democracies and therefore much can be learnt by considering how Australia's experience fits into worldwide trends in state and religion relationships.

Spis treści

1: Introduction; Part I: Theory and Context;  2: Theories of State-Religion Relationships;  3: In the Beginning;  4: Religion in the Australian Constitution;  5: Comparison with other Jurisdictions;  Part II: Australian Case Studies;  6: Contemporary Issues;  7: Restricting Religion;  8: Religion and Education;  9: Funding Religion;  10: Conclusion

O autorze

Renae Barker is a lecturer in the Law School and Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Muslim States and Societies at the University of Western Australia. She is a member of Bishop in Council and Trustee in the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury and a member of the legislation drafting committee for the Anglican Diocese of Perth. Renae has an LLB and Bachelor of Economics from Murdoch University and PhD from the University of Western Australia.