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Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions - Contemporary Entanglements of Faith and Government (Hardcover)
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Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions - Contemporary Entanglements of Faith and Government (Hardcover)
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The institutional entanglement of religion and government takes
many forms, including direct governmental funding of religious
associations, legal recognition, and governmental endorsement of
religious symbols in public spaces. The entanglement of church and
state remains contentious in many democratic countries today. In
fact, in Europe and North America, there are a growing number of
instances of governments becoming entwined with religious matters.
Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions explores the entanglement
of religion and government in a comparative analysis of four cases
within democratic countries: the British Jewish Free School (JFS)
case, in which the U.K. Supreme Court forced a government-funded
faith school to change its admission policies; The European Court
of Human Rights decision in Martinez, in which the Catholic church
kept its right to dismiss religion teachers within the Spanish
public school system; The Lautsi case, in which the Italian
government successfully defended its policy of mandating a crucifix
in all public school classrooms - at the European Court of Human
Rights; and the case of the Bladensburg World War I Memorial (often
called the Peace Cross) in Maryland, in which the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that the cross's public placement and maintenance
funding does not violate the non-establishment clause of the First
Amendment. Perez describes how these cases create complex, hybrid
religious-statist institutions and outlines a novel framework for
understanding these cases.
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