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Secularism and State Policies toward Religion : the United States, France, and Turkey

Print Book, English, 2009
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (New York), 2009
XVII, 313 p. ; 23 cm.
9780521517805, 9780521741347, 052151780X, 0521741343
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Introduction
Analyzing secularism : history, ideology, and policy
The United States
Passive secularism and the Christian Right's challenge (1981-2008)
Religious diversity and the evolution of passive secularism (1776-1981)
France
Assertive secularism and the multiculturalist challenge (1989-2008)
The war of two Frances and the rise of assertive secularism (1789-1989)
Turkey
Assertive secularism and the Islamic challenge (1997-2008)
Westernization and the emergence of assertive secularism (1826-1997)
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