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Religion, Secularism and Politics - A Mediterranean View (Paperback)
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Religion, Secularism and Politics - A Mediterranean View (Paperback)
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Political debates in many Mediterranean countries today are
increasingly framed in dichotomous terms, highlighting divisions
between religious and secular worldviews. The role of religion in
public life or, put another way, the 'public return of religion',
is a pertinent and controversial political question everywhere in
the Mediterranean region. How do we explain this phenomenon? On the
one hand, we can point to both economic and demographic changes,
while, on the other, we can trace the impact of continuing
secularisation. Together these two sets of developments produce new
challenges to existing political arrangements. This book examines
the contemporary interaction of religion and politics in the
Mediterranean region with a specific focus on democratization and
democracy and the role in this context of selected religious
actors. Individual contributions focus on several European
countries (France, Italy and Turkey), while others are concerned
with states in the Middle East and North Africa (Egypt, Israel,
Morocco, and Tunisia). Among European countries, France is widely
regarded as a highly secular country, with over 50% of people
regarding themselves as 'without religion'. Morocco, on the other
hand, is a much more religious country, measured by the fact that
an estimated 94.5% of Moroccans self-identify themselves as
Muslims. The specific country studies were selected because,
whether they are 'religious' or not, each case has current
controversies involving both religious and secular actors which
impact upon key political relationships, centrally involving
religion, secularization and democratization/democracy. This book
was published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.
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