Religion and Regimes - Support, Separation, and Opposition

Religion and Regimes: Support, Separation, and Opposition emphasizes the changing political role of religion in various nations of the world. The approach is based on market models of religion, and connects the style of religious politics in a given nation to the nature of competition among dominant religious traditions and their alternatives.

List of contents

Introduction: Comparative Religious Politics
Mehran Tamadonfar and Ted G. Jelen
Chapter 1: A Tangled Web: Religion and the Regime in the United States
Rachel Blum and Clyde Wilcox
Chapter 2: Religion and Regimes in Brazil and Chile
Christine A. Gustafson
Chapter 3: From Atheism to Establishment? The Evolution of Church-State Relations in Russia
Christopher Marsh
Chapter 4: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
Elizabeth A. Oldmixon and Rebekah Samaniego
Chapter 5: International Context and State-Religion Regimes in France and Turkey
Ramazan Kilinç
Chapter 6: Religion and State In India: Ambiguity, Chauvinism, and Tolerance
Scott Hibbard
Chapter 7: The Roman Catholic Church and Political Regime in Portugal and Spain: Support, Opposition and Separation
Paul Christopher Manuel
Chapter 8: Democratization, Human Rights, and Religion-State Relations in Taiwan and Hong Kong
J. Christopher Soper and Joel S. Fetzer
Chapter 9: The Orphaned Irish: Church and State in Neo-Liberal Ireland
Michele Dillon
Chapter 10: Religion and Regime Change in Iran and Poland
Mehran Tamadonfar and Ted G. Jelen
Conclusion
Ted G. Jelen and Mehran Tamadonfar

About the author

Edited by Mehran Tamadonfar and Ted G. Jelen - Contributions by Rachel Blum; Clyde Wilcox; Christine A. Gustafson; Christopher Marsh; Elizabeth A. Oldmixon; Rebekah Samaniego; Ramazan Kilinç; Scott Hibbard; Paul Christopher Manuel; J. Christopher Soper; J

Summary

Religion and Regimes: Support, Separation, and Opposition emphasizes the changing political role of religion in various nations of the world. The approach is based on market models of religion, and connects the style of religious politics in a given nation to the nature of competition among dominant religious traditions and their alternatives.

Product details

• Authors: Ted G. Tamadonfar Jelen, Mehran Jelen Tamadonfar
• Assisted by: Ted G. Jelen (Editor), Mehran Tamadonfar (Editor), Tamadonfar Mehran (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781498550567
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5056-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State