ISBN:
9781107503236
,
9781107103719
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 286 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social theory, religion and politics
DDC:
322/.10973
Keywords:
Secularism
;
Secularization
;
Religion and politics
;
Religious education
;
Secularism
;
Religion and politics
;
Religious education
;
Secularism United States
;
Secularization
;
Religion and politics United States
;
Religious education United States
;
Secularism Australia
;
Religion and politics Australia
;
Religious education Australia
;
Australia Religion
;
United States Religion
;
United States Religion
;
Australia Religion
;
USA
;
Australien
;
Politische Institution
;
Religiöse Erziehung
;
Säkularismus
;
Geschichte 1800-2000
Abstract:
Politics, institutions, and secularization -- Forging the nineteenth-century settlement, 1800-1880 -- State-building and secularization in comparative perspective -- The nineteenth-century settlement in transition, 1880-1945 -- Slow secularization in the permeable American state -- Settlement stability in the insulated Australian state -- Forging the twentieth-century settlement, 1945-2000 -- Secularization and the courts in postwar America -- Desecularization and electoral institutions in postwar Australia -- Implications -- Toward a twenty-first century settlement?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index