TY - BOOK ID - 18442745 TI - Secularism and state policies toward religion : the United States, France, and Turkey PY - 2009 SN - 9780521517805 9780521741347 9780511815096 0521741343 052151780X 9780511650475 0511650477 9780511533709 0511533705 0511815093 1107191459 0511532792 0511531885 9781107191457 9780511532795 9780511531880 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Religion and state KW - Religion and state. KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Religious studies KW - United States KW - Turkey KW - Religion et Etat KW - France KW - 261.7 KW - 261.7 De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten KW - De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten KW - State and religion KW - State, The KW - Religious aspects KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - secularism KW - state policy toward religion KW - state regulation of religion KW - religious leaders KW - authoritarian government KW - religious expression KW - democracy KW - separatist secularism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18442745 AB - Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion, whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility, as seen in their bans on Muslim headscarves. In the United States, the dominant ideology is 'passive secularism', which requires the state to play a passive role, by allowing public visibility of religion. Dominant ideology in France and Turkey is 'assertive secularism', which demands that the state play an assertive role in excluding religion from the public sphere. Passive and assertive secularism became dominant in these cases through certain historical processes, particularly the presence or absence of an ancien reĢgime based on the marriage between monarchy and hegemonic religion during state-building periods. ER -