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The Challenge of Pluralism - Church and State in Six Democracies (Hardcover, Third Edition)
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The Challenge of Pluralism - Church and State in Six Democracies (Hardcover, Third Edition)
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In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes
France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic
comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the
United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and
Australia. As successful and stable political democracies, these
countries share a commitment to protecting the religious rights of
their citizens. The book demonstrates, however, that each has taken
substantially different approaches to resolving basic church-state
questions. The authors examine both the historical roots of those
differences and more recent conflicts over Islam and other
religious minorities, explain how contemporary church-state issues
are addressed, and provide a framework for assessing the success of
each of the six states in protecting the religious rights of its
citizens using a framework based on the ideal of governmental
neutrality and evenhandedness toward people of all faiths and of
none. Responding to the general confusion about the relationship
between church and state in the West, this book offers a
much-needed comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a
source of political conflict. The authors argue that the US
conception of church-state separation, with its emphasis on
avoiding government establishment of religion, is unique among
political democracies and discriminates against religious groups by
denying religious organizations access to government services
provided to other organizations. The authors persuasively conclude
that the United States can learn a great deal from other Western
nations in promoting religious neutrality and the free exercise of
religion.
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