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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyssens, Jeffrey, author.

Contributor:

Nutte, Niels de.

Schröder, Stefan.

Series:

New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought Series

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-11-133798-7

OCLC:

1463076433