European liberal democracy and the principle of state religious neutrality

Madeley, John

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“…They provided nationalist movements with a rich set of communicable myths, narratives, and symbols. Overall, they not only contributed significantly to the creation of distinctive and homogeneous nations, but also made religion a more salient part of national identities (Madeley, ; Rokkan, ).…”

Section: Religion In Secular Europementioning

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Institutionalization of Islam in Secular Europe: The Influence of State–Religion Relations on Anti‐Muslim Attitudes

Kaya¹

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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This study examines church–state relations in Europe, and analyzes their influence on anti‐immigrant attitudes. The literature explains this relationship primarily with religious demographics, or state privileges for the majority faith. Alternately, this study focuses on the status of the majority religion. It argues that, in countries with a national church, citizens are more likely to consider the institutionalization of a new religion to be occurring at the expense of the national heritage, and react negatively. To test that hypothesis, the study focuses on Muslim immigrants in Europe, and builds an index that gauges the extent to which European states institutionalize Islam. Then, employing multilevel regression analysis, it investigates how the institutionalization of Islam influences anti‐Muslim prejudice in different contexts of church–state regimes. Individual‐level data come from the latest wave of the European Values Study, and cover 31 countries. Findings indicate that, in European countries with a national church, institutionalization of Islam increases anti‐Muslim prejudice. In countries without a national church, however, institutionalization leads to tolerance. These results confirm the continuing relevance of religion on the national level in Europe, despite the decline in individual religiosity.

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Section: Religion In Secular Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Institutionalization of Islam in Secular Europe: The Influence of State–Religion Relations on Anti‐Muslim Attitudes

Kaya¹

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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“…This speaks of an imperfect European project of 'cultural conversation', whereby what Coles (2009) identifies as converging Islamic and Western values are yet to be fully recognised by diverse national constituencies. Moreover, this imperfect European project highlights ongoing difficulties in implementing a neutral state, or a moderate secular state (Modood 2010), which has emerged since the mid-1970s within circles of European political philosophers, is broadly connected with the thoughts of John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant and John Locke and is supposedly open to the accommodation of different religions (Madeley 2003). Ongoing cultural frictions in Great Britain over sharia law courts (Zee 2016) and forced marriage (Bonino 2016b) also suggest that the more conservative sections of the Muslim community still struggle to adapt to existing legal frameworks and social norms, thus placing Muslim diversity in a weak position when it seeks to negotiate group-based demands in the contested arenas of security.…”

Section: Beyond Huntington: From Global Clashes To National Tensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The British state ‘security syndrome’ and Muslim diversity: challenges for liberal democracy in the age of terror

Bonino

2016

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This paper explores the securitisation of British Muslims within a global context in which tensions are reignited by the threat that Islamist terrorism, and Islam more generally, are considered to pose to the West. While Western involvement in Muslim-majority countries continues to fuel the idea of a 'clash of civilisations', domestic responses to terrorism and extremism take forward its rhetoric. At the heart of 15 years of wide-ranging responses lies the state 'security syndrome'. Operating through the paradigm of risk reduction, the British state has reasserted its primary role as the distributor of security in ways that move beyond the surgical targeting of violent Islamists and their supporters and instead risk impacting on Muslims qua Muslims. Counter-terrorism and anti-extremism notions and practices that conflate security risks and cultural threats signal that Great Britain is a liberal democracy that is yet to fully foster positive inter-community relations and achieve social cohesion.

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“…Also their answers are, at the bottom of the line, similar: institutional pluralism and theory that proceeds hand in hand with practice, empirically grounded in the real world. Bader and Shachar are certainly not alone in shifting the debate about the relationship between politics and religion from church–state relations to governance (see also: Bramadat and Koenig 2008; Madeley 2003b). What is especially noteworthy about their approach, however, is that they identify very clearly the theoretical and normative stakes in the governance debate in the light of the return of religion and the rise of post‐secular democratic theory (see also: Audi 2000; Parekh 2000).…”

Section: Practical Implications: Governance Of Religionmentioning

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The Impact of the Return of Religion on Theoretical Approaches to Democracy and Governance in the Social and Political Sciences

Stoeckl

2010

Sociology Compass

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The survey article analyses the impact of the return of religion on theoretical approaches to democracy and governance in the social and political sciences and spells out the normative and practical implications of a post-secular research programme on politics and religion. Reviewing the recent theoretical literature in the field, the author argues that there is a post-secular revision underway in the social and political sciences. This revision leads to a re-conceptualization of key assumptions about religion in sociology and political sciences: on the grounds of a historical and sociological criticism of the secularization thesis, secularity as condition and secularism as ideology acquire analytical significance. In a second step and drawing chiefly on works of Habermas, Rawls, Bader and Shachar, the author proposes that as a consequence of this re-conceptualization, the relationship between politics and religion in democratic theory is best interpreted in terms of a post-secular, deliberative public sphere in which religion has its place and that an appropriate research programme on religion and politics might consist in a normatively informed comparative governance approach to religion. Sociology Compass 4/6 (2010):

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European liberal democracy and the principle of state religious neutrality

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Institutionalization of Islam in Secular Europe: The Influence of State–Religion Relations on Anti‐Muslim Attitudes

Institutionalization of Islam in Secular Europe: The Influence of State–Religion Relations on Anti‐Muslim Attitudes

The British state ‘security syndrome’ and Muslim diversity: challenges for liberal democracy in the age of terror

The Impact of the Return of Religion on Theoretical Approaches to Democracy and Governance in the Social and Political Sciences

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