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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154338403321

Autore

Driessen Michael Daniel

Titolo

Religion and democratization : framing religious and political identities in muslim and catholic societies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

9780199375288 (ebook) :

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Classificazione

POL029000POL010000

Disciplina

322/.1

Soggetti

Religion and politics - Islam - Religious aspects

Democracy - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Democracy

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Religion - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Democracy Theory, Secularization Stories, and Religion-State Arrangements -- Chapter 2: Islam and Catholicism: Qualifying Democratic Hostility -- Chapter 3: Towards a general theory of religious-democratic change -- Chapter 4: Religion and Democracy in Italy -- Chapter 5: Religion and Democracy in Algeria -- Chapter 6: Comparing Religiously Friendly Democratization across the Muslim Majority World -- Chapter 7: Statistical Explorations -- Conclusions -- Archives -- Databases -- Appendix A: Grim and Finke (2006) GFI and GRI Coding Questions -- Appendix B: Summary Statistics -- Appendix C: World Values Survey Question Wordings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a comparative study of how regime types and religion-state arrangements frame religious and political identities in Muslim and Catholic societies.