Religion and Regimes
Support, Separation, and Opposition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5707757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanya B Schwarz (0000-0002-7922-4140, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 561-563 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/csv059 |
| OpenAlex | W2272925839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Relying on a market model of religion, wherein they assume that “adherents of numerically dominant traditions seek privileged statuses” (p. xix), the contributing authors to Mehran Tamadonfar and Ted G. Jelen's edited volume, Religion and Regimes: Support, Separation, and the Opposition, analyze the relationship between the state and religion in a variety of country case studies. They argue that the state/religion relationship can best be theorized according to a framework of “support, separation, and opposition” (p. ix), and they present three models of political religion: the lazy monopoly, religious wars, and religious pluralism. Religion and Regimes provides a historically rich analysis of religion and politics in a number of diverse countries located all over the world. At times, the authors provide compelling comparisons that show how similar contexts can provide divergent long-term results—such as the strong and effectual religious activism in Iran and Poland (Tamadonfar and Jelen, chapter 10) and the influence of secular ideologies in France and Turkey (Kılınç, chapter 5). In other cases, the contributing authors trace the (often evolving) state/religion relationship within one particular country over the course of several decades and through multiple regime changes. By presenting a wide array of cases, the volume encourages the reader to compare and contrast—seeing the patterns that can and do emerge across diverse political and religious communities.
Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Opposition (politics) · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Religious pluralism · Secular state · Separation of church and state · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2017 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |