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Informationen zum Autor Veit Bader is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Klappentext Policies dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic states--as well as the established institutions that enforce those policies--are increasingly under pressure. Politics and political theory are caught in a trap between the fully secularized state and neo-corporate regimes of selective cooperation between states and organized religion. This volume proposes an original! comprehensive! and multidisciplinary approach to problems of governing religious diversity--combining moral and political philosophy! constitutional law! history! sociology! and religious anthropology. Drawing on such diverse scholarship! "Secularism or Democracy?" proposes an associational governance--a moderately libertarian! flexible variety of democratic institutional pluralism--as the plausible third way to overcome the inherent deficiencies of the predominant models. Inhaltsverzeichnis Summary contents - 6 Detailed contents - 8 Preface - 14 Introduction - 18 Part 1: Modern states and religious! sociological and historical considerations: setting the stage - 34 Ch. 1: Secularisation and seperation? Institutional diversity of religious governace - 36 Part 2: Reconceptualising principles and making political philosophy fit for the task of accommodating religious diversity - 66 Ch. 2: Contextualising morality: moral minimalism! relational neutrality! and fairnee as even-handedness - 68 Ch. 3: Priority for liberal democracy or secularism?: Why I am not a secularist - 94 Part 3 - 128 Ch. 4: Religious freedoms and other human rights! moral conundrums and hard cases - 130 Ch. 5: Relational neutrality and even-handedness toward religions: softer cases and symbolic isseus - 154 Part 4: Institutional models of democracy and religious governance: associative democracy - 176 Ch. 6: Moderately agonistic democracy! democratic institutional pluralism! associative democracy and the incorporation of minorities - 180 Ch. 7: Normative models of religious governance: associative democracy! a moral defence - 202 Ch. 8: Dilemmas of institutionalisation: associative democracy! church atonomy and equal treatment of religious - 224 Ch. 9: A realistic defence of associative democracy - 246 Ch. 10: Associative democracy and education - 264 Conclusions - 292 Notes - 302 References - 348 Index of Names - 368 Index of subjects - 376 ...
