RT Article
T1 Diversities and dynamics in the governance of religion: inter-regional comparative themes
JF Religion, state & society
VO 50
IS 4
SP 469
OP 485
A1 Sealy, Thomas
A1 Modood, Tariq 1952-
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1822733103
AB Debates and controversies over the governance of religious diversity are important features of the social and political landscape in all five regions covered in this collection. All have historical as well as contemporary forms of these debates that have had a significant impact on not just the structures and forms of governance but also on the very identity of each state as it has grappled, and continues to grapple, with religious diversity and the issues it raises. This final contribution presents an inter-regional comparative analysis and findings of different modes of state-religion connections between our different regions, following on from the discussions in the individual contributions of the collection focused on intra-regional analyses. Moreover, central to state-religion relations is the idea of political secularism and so we offer a definition of political secularism from which we can compare countries and regions. We assess the idea of political secularism against our typology of modes of governance of religious diversity and explore convergences and divergences between our regions along three conceptual lines: the idea of secularism, the idea of freedom of religion, and the relationship between national identity and religion.
K1 Citizenship
K1 National Identity
K1 Religious Diversity
K1 Freedom Of Religion
K1 Political secularism
DO 10.1080/09637494.2022.2132079