Secularism in retreat
In: The national interest, Heft 46, S. 3-12
ISSN: 0884-9382
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In: The national interest, Heft 46, S. 3-12
ISSN: 0884-9382
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In: International studies, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 73-90
ISSN: 0973-0702, 1939-9987
In: Telos: critical theory of the contemporary, Band 1996, Heft 108, S. 165-168
ISSN: 1940-459X
In: Digest of Middle East studies: DOMES, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 18-20
ISSN: 1949-3606
In: Dialectical anthropology: an independent international journal in the critical tradition committed to the transformation of our society and the humane union of theory and practice, Band 21, Heft 3-4
ISSN: 1573-0786
In: SUNY series in radical social and political theory
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 304-321
ISSN: 0017-257X
In: Southeastern political review: SPR, Band 24, S. 137-157
ISSN: 0730-2177
Describes the transformation of ethno-nationalism into a more cosmopolitan and less divisive political identification, as a result of the urbanization, industrialization, and secularization of society, 1950s-1980s.
In: New directions in anthropology 5
In: Middle East report: MER ; Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Band 26, S. 2-32
ISSN: 0888-0328, 0899-2851
Arguing that both increased secularism and growing religious diversity since the 1960s have fragmented commonly held values, Thiemann observes that there has been an historical ambivalence in American attitudes towards religion in public life. He proposes abandoning the idea of an absolute wall between church and state and all the conceptual framework built around that concept in interpreting the First Amendment. He returns instead to James Madison's views and the Constitutional principles of liberty, equality, and toleration. Refuting both political liberalism (as too secular) and communitarianism (as failing to meet the challenge of pluralism), Thiemann offers a new definition of liberalism that gives religions a voice in the public sphere as long as they heed the Constitutional principles of liberty, equality, and toleration or mutual respect