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Record Nr.

UNINA9910168754603321

Titolo

Religion and the state : a comparative sociology / / edited by Jack Barbalet, Adam Possamai, Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-49109-4

9786613586322

0-85728-807-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Key Issues in Modern Sociology

Disciplina

322/.1

Soggetti

Religion and state

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

States, consumption and managing religions / Bryan S. Turner, Adam Possamai and Jack Barbalet -- Religion in liberal and authoritarian states / Bryan S. Turner -- Religion in prisons and in partnership with the state / James A. Beckford -- The secularization thesis and the secular state : reflections with special attention to debates in Australia / Stephen Chavura -- Secularism, religion and the status quo / Gal Levy -- Managing China's Muslim minorities : migration, labor and rise of ethnoreligious consciousness among Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang / Reza Hasmath -- The tension between state and religion in American foreign policy / Douglas Porpora -- Church, state and society in post-communist Europe / Siniša Zrinščak -- Chinese religion, market society and the state / Jack Barbalet -- Hindu normalization, nationalism and consumer mobilization / Arathi Sriprakash and Adam Possamai -- Clash of secularity and religiosity : the staging of secularism and Islam through the icons of Atatürk and the veil in Turkey / Meyda Yeǧenoǧlu -- Gramsci, Jediism, the standardization of popular religion and the state / Adam Possamai -- Concerning the current recompositions of religion and of politics / Patrick Michel -- Public religions and the state : a comparative perspective / Jack Barbalet, Adam Possamai and Bryan S. Turner.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores key issues in the modern tensions between state and religions by exploring a number of case studies from around the



world.