Secularism or Democracy?: Associational Governance of Religious Diversity

By Veit Bader

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053569995
• ISBN13: 9789053569993
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"