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Record Nr.

UNINA9911011290903321

Autore

Tyssens Jeffrey

Titolo

The Non-Religious and the State : Seculars Crafting Their Lives in Different Frameworks from the Age of Revolution to the Current Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel/Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2024

©2025

ISBN

9783111337982

3111337987

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 pages)

Collana

New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought Series ; ; v.3

Altri autori (Persone)

NutteNiels de

SchröderStefan

Disciplina

322.1

Soggetti

Secularism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Seculars Crafting their Lives in Different Frameworks from the Age of Revolution to the Present Day -- Part I -- Duelling with the Devil you Know. Secularism in Victorian England and its Relationship to the State -- Clashes, Competition and Common Goals: Italian Secularisms and the Liberal State -- The Atheist and the Court. The Failed Secularisation of the Judicial Oath in Nineteenth-Century Belgium -- Atheism in Judicial Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of the US and the Italian Constitutional Scenario -- Part II -- Adam and Eve or Eva and Eve: Gay Rights and Religious/Non-Religious Public Definitions of Marriage in Ghana -- The Price of Secularist Activism: Organised Unbelief before the State in Brazil -- Do Mexicans Support a Secular Regime? Types of Attitudes Towards Secularism Policies in Four Religious Groups -- The Religiosity of the US Nonprofit Sector and its Impact on Secular Women -- State (Non)Secularism and Religious Ambivalence in the Middle East -- Non-Religious Perceptions of Religion and Church-State Relations in Europe: A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study in Flanders, Greece and Norway -- Part III -- Let's Talk about Money. Questions and Challenges Around the Public Funding of Humanist Organisations -- Accomodationism as a Battlefield? The Local 'Recognition' and Funding



Secular Humanists in Flanders in the 1970s -- Moral and Religious Counselling in French-Speaking Belgium since the 1970s. The Quest for Legal Recognition and Dignity -- Disentanglement of Church and State: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg -- The Ligue de l'Enseignement and the French State since 1950: Between Influence and Dissonance -- Part IV -- Patterns of Decline in German Organised Freethought in the Twentieth Century.

The East German Association of Freethinkers (1988-1991), "Last Ideological Offensive" and Ultimate Troublemaker to the Political System -- Organised Non-Religion and the State in Contemporary Germany: Religion- Related Incorporation and Inner Conflicts -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

As the number of the non-affiliated and religiously indifferent is on the rise, this book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies.It shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large - be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals - impact upon the interface between the state and.