Secular Conversions - Political Institutions Religious Education in United States

Klappentext Why does secularization proceed differently in otherwise similar countries? Secular Conversions demonstrates that the institutional structure of the state is a key factor shaping the course of secularization. Drawing upon detailed historical analysis of religious education policy in the United States and Australia, Damon Mayrl details how administrative structures, legal procedures, and electoral systems have shaped political opportunities and even helped create constituencies for secular policies. In so doing, he also shows how a decentralized, readily accessible American state acts as an engine for religious conflict, encouraging religious differences to spill into law and politics at every turn. This book provides a vivid picture of how political conflicts interacted with the state over the long span of American and Australian history to shape religion's role in public life. Ultimately, it reveals that taken-for-granted political structures have powerfully shaped the fate of religion in modern societies. Zusammenfassung This book shows how campaigns for more or less secular policies in education were shaped by their interactions with the state throughout American and Australian history. In so doing! it explains how and why religion comes to be embraced or excluded from public life. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; List of acronyms; Introduction; 1. Politics, institutions, and secularization; Part I. Forging the Nineteenth-Century Settlement, 1800-80: 2. State-building and secularization in comparative perspective; Part II. The Nineteenth-Century Settlement in Transition, 1880-1945: Preface to Part II; 3. Slow secularization in the permeable American state; 4. Settlement stability in the insulated Australian state; Part III. Forging the Twentieth-Century Settlement, 1945-2000: Preface to Part III; 5. Secularization and the courts in postwar America; 6. Desecularization and electoral institutions in postwar Australia; Part IV. Implications: 7. Conclusion; Epilogue. Toward a twenty-first century settlement?; Index....

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• Authors: Damon Mayrl, Damon (Universidad Carlos III De Madrid) Mayrl, Mayrl Damon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2016
• EAN: 9781107103719
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10371-9
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics; Cambridge Studies in Social Th
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Sociology, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Educational strategies & policy, Politics and government, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Educational strategies and policy