Here I Stand

Lutheran Stubbornness in the Danish Prime Minister's Office during the Cartoon Crisis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2397830
AutoresCamilla Sløk (0000-0002-5397-0401, Copenhagen Business School, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas231-248
Fecha de publicación2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431009103708
OpenAlexW2170620626
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas8

The article provides a systems-theoretical analysis of the Cartoon Crisis and the way the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, responded to the expectations of Muslim groups in particular and the business community. The analysis shows that the Prime Minister followed a single strategy throughout the crisis, namely, insisting on a secular understanding of the separation of politics and religion. Religion, in this view, should not interfere in politics, and politics should not interfere in religion. The main outline of the analysis shows that Prime Minister Rasmussen, paradoxically, found himself using a theological distinction in order to make a political argument. In doing so, Rasmussen shows, in contrast to his former argumentations, that modern, so-called 'secular' politics is actually based on a religious Protestant understanding of the separation of the two realms, though the use Rasmussen made of this separation remains political

Danish · Economics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Protestantism · Secularism · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions