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Informationen zum Autor Ahmet T. Kuru is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at and Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at SIPA of Columbia University. His dissertation, on which this book is based, received the Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation from the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of several articles that have appeared in journals such as World Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. Klappentext Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion. Zusammenfassung Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book examines the impact of ideological struggles on public policy making. Specifically! it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion ('passive secularism')! whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility ('assertive secularism'). Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Analyzing secularism: history, ideology, and policy; Part I. The United States: 2. Passive secularism and the Christian right's challenge (1981-2008); 3. Religious diversity and the evolution of passive secularism (1776-1981); Part II. France: 4. Assertive secularism and the multiculturalist challenge (1989-2008); 5. The war of two Frances and the rise of assertive secularism (1789-1989); Part III. Turkey: 6. Assertive secularism and the Islamic challenge (1997-2008); 7. Westernization and the emergence of assertive secularism (1826-1997).
