The Correlates of Religion and State

ISBN-13: 9780367236854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 174 str.

Jonathan Fox

Opis

This comprehensive volume examines the nature, causes, and consequences of state religion policy in 183 countries between 1990 and 2014. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Religion, State & Society.

Spis treści

1. The correlates of religion and state: an introduction  2. A world survey of secular-religious competition: state religious policy from 1990 to 2014  3. Religious discrimination and religious armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: an obvious relationship?  4. Religion and state entanglement and interstate armed conflict initiation, 1990–2010  5. Government interference in religious institutions and terrorism  6. Feed the Church, starve the party? Church-state relations and religious political mobilisation in 21 Catholic-majority countries  7. Religion–state relations and public opinion: norms, institutions and social consensus  8. Compliance gaps and the failed promises of religious freedoms  9. Religion and right-wing populism in Italy: using ‘Judeo-Christian roots’ to kill the European Union

O autorze

Jonathan Fox is the Director of the Religion and State project (www.religionandstate.org) and The Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He has published extensively on religion and politics. His recent books include An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory and Practice (2^nd edition, 2018).