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Religion and Regimes

Support, Separation, and Opposition
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This work is a collection of essays that describe and analyze religion and regime relations in various nations in the contemporary world. The contributors examine patterns of interaction between religious actors and national governments that include separation, support, and opposition. In general, the contributors find that most countries have a majority or plurality religious tradition, which will seek a privileged position in public life. The nature of the relationship between such traditions and national policy is largely determined by the nature of opposition. A pattern of quasi-establishment is most common in settings in which opposition to a dominant religious tradition is explicitly religious. However, in some instances, the dominant tradition is associated with a discredited prior regime, in which a pattern of legal separation is most common. Conversely, in some nations, a dominant religion is, for historical reasons, strong associated with national identity. Such regimes are often characterized by a "lazy monopoly," in which the public influence of religion is reduced.
Introduction: Comparative Religious Politics Mehran Tamadonfar and Ted G. Jelen Chapter 1: A Tangled Web: Religion and the Regime in the United States Rachel Blum and Clyde Wilcox Chapter 2: Religion and Regimes in Brazil and Chile Christine A. Gustafson Chapter 3: From Atheism to Establishment? The Evolution of Church-State Relations in Russia Christopher Marsh Chapter 4: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State Elizabeth A. Oldmixon and Rebekah Samaniego Chapter 5: International Context and State-Religion Regimes in France and Turkey Ramazan Kilinc Chapter 6: Religion and State In India: Ambiguity, Chauvinism, and Tolerance Scott Hibbard Chapter 7: The Roman Catholic Church and Political Regime in Portugal and Spain: Support, Opposition and Separation Paul Christopher Manuel Chapter 8: Democratization, Human Rights, and Religion-State Relations in Taiwan and Hong Kong J. Christopher Soper and Joel S. Fetzer Chapter 9: The Orphaned Irish: Church and State in Neo-Liberal Ireland Michele Dillon Chapter 10: Religion and Regime Change in Iran and Poland Mehran Tamadonfar and Ted G. Jelen Conclusion Ted G. Jelen and Mehran Tamadonfar
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