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The Secular-Religious Competition Perspective in Comparative Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2019

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Abstract

Political secularism is defined as “an ideology or set of beliefs advocating that religion ought to be separate from all or some aspects of politics or public life (or both).” In the secular–religious competition perspective, I argue that political secularists compete with religious political actors to influence government policy around the world. Yet this competition is complicated by many factors. The contributions to this symposium demonstrate that this is the case in their examination of secular–religious tensions and state–religion relations in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Tunisia. These cases show that government religion policy evolves over time and is deeply influenced by secular–religious competition but that this competition is a complex one involving many other factors and influences.

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Politics and Religion , Volume 12 , Issue 3: Symposium: Political Secularism and Religious difference in Western Europe, The Middle East, and North Africa , September 2019 , pp. 524 - 534
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Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2019 

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