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Examines the role of religion and state identity transformation in Erdogan's Turkey and its reflections to the Balkan Peninsula Discusses the effects of Turkey's authoritarian turn during the AKP rule in the domain of foreign policyExamines the role of religion, ethnicity, state identity and power in the relations between Turkey and the Balkan PeninsulaPresents the results of more than 120 semi-structured interviews with political actors, diplomats, religious leaders, scholars, journalists and religious community representatives in Turkey and the BalkansProvides an example of a hybrid insider/outsider status when conducting ethnographical fieldwork among religious groupsWatch a webinar from The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs (Georgetown University) where Ahmet Erdi Öztürk discusses the book with Nukhet SandalWatch Ahmet Erdi Öztürk talk about his book with Prof. Scott Lucas on DeepDivePoliticsRead an interview with Ahmet Erdi Öztürk about this book at The Adriatic ReportWatch Ahmet Erdi Öztürk discuss this book on the Centre for Southeast European Studies YoutubeTurkey and its recent ethno-religious transformation have had a strong impact on the state identity and country's relation to the Balkan Peninsula. This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), to determine the scopes of its activities in the region. Ahmet Erdi Öztürk illuminates an often-neglected aspect of Turkey's relations with its Balkan neighbours that emerged as a result of the much discussed 'authoritarian turn' – a broader shift in Turkish domestic and foreign policy from a realist-secular to a Sunni Islamic orientation with ethno-nationalist policies. In order to understand how these concepts have been received locally, Öztürk draws on personal testimonies given by both Turkish and non-Turkish, Muslim and non-Muslim interviewees in three country cases: Republic of Bulgaria, Republic of North Macedonia and Republic of Albania. The findings shed light on contemporary issues surrounding the continuous redefinition of Turkish secularism under the AKP rule and the emergence of a new Muslim elite in Turkey."

" 'Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not';. Using the Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume aims to engage in the painstaking task of disentangling Islam from the political ideologies that have issued from its theologies to fight for governmental power and the transformation of society. While these ideologies tap into sources of religious legitimacy, the author shows that they are fundamentally secular or temporal enterprises, defined by confrontation with other political ideologies--both progressive and liberal--within the arena of nation states. Their objectives are the same as these other ideologies, i.e., to harness political power for changing national societies, and they resort to various methods of persuasion, until they break down into violence.The two driving questions of the book are, whence come these ideologies, and why do they--sometimes--result in violence? Ideologies of Salafi radicalism are at work in the five countries of the Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, (Northern) Nigeria and Senegal, but violence has broken out only in Mali and Northern Nigeria. Using a theoretical framework of ideological development and methods of historical analysis, Idrissa traces the emergence of Salafi radicalism in each of these countries as a spark ignited by the shock between concurrent processes of Islamization and colonization in the 1940s. However, while the spark eventually ignited a blaze in Mali and Nigeria, it has only led to milder political heat in Niger and Senegal and has had no burning effect at all in Burkina Faso. By meticulously examining the development of Salafi radicalism ideologies over time in connection with developments in national politics in each of the countries, Idrissa arrives at compelling conclusions about these divergent outcomes. Given the many similarities between the countries studied, these divergences show, in particular, that history, the behaviour of state leaders and national sociologies matter--against assumptions of 'natural'; contradictions between religion (Islam) and secularism or democracy. This volume offers a new perspective in discussions on ideology, which remains--as is shown here--the independent variable of many key contemporary political processes, either hidden in plain sight or disguised in a religious garb. "--Provided by publisher.

In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and identity and the rise of the people of 'no religion'. The second was the transformation in women's lives that spawned a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. Both phenomena were sudden though not uniform in their impact. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered by an historic confluence of factors in the 1960s. Canada, Ireland, UK and USA represent different stages of secularisation for the book's study. The religious collapse in mainland Britain and most of Canada was sharp and spectacular but contrasted with the more resilient religious cultures of the United States, the Canadian Maritimes, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Using statistical evidence from government censuses, the book demonstrates how secularisation was deeply linked to demographic change. Starting with the distinctive features of the 1960s, the book quantifies secularisation's scale, timing and character in each nation. Then, the intense links of women's sexual revolution to religious decline are explored. From there, women's changing patterns of marriage, coupling and birthing are correlated with diminishing religiosity. The final exploration is into the secularising consequences of economic change, higher education and women's expanding work roles. This book transforms the way in which secularisation is imagined. Religion matters more than mere belief, practice and the churches; it shapes how populations construct their sexual practices, families and life-course. In nations where religion has been dissolving since 1960 into apathy and atheism, the process has been part of a demographic revolution built on new moral codes. Connecting religious history with the history of population, this volume unveils how the historian and sociologist need to engage with the demographic enormity of the decline of Christendom. CALLUM G. BROWN is Professor of Religious and Cultural History at the University of Dundee.

"Do Evangelical activists control the Republican Party? Do secular activists control the Democratic Party? In Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?, Ryan Claassen carefully assesses the way campaign activists represent religious and non-religious groups in American political parties dating back to the 1960s. By providing a new theoretical framework for investigating the connections between macro social and political trends, the results challenge a conventional wisdom in which recently mobilized religious and Secular extremists captured the parties and created a God gap. The new approach reveals that very basic social and demographic trends matter far more than previously recognized and that mobilization matters far less. The God gap in voting is real, but it was not created by Christian Right mobilization efforts and a Secular backlash. Where others see culture wars and captured parties, Claassen finds many religious divisions in American politics are artifacts of basic social changes. This very basic insight leads to many profoundly different conclusions about the motivations of religious and non-religious activists and voters"..

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Arjun Appadurai and Michael Lambek (Jordan Kynes) -- Part 1. Religion, Gender, Body and Aesthetics: Stagnation or Change in the Authority over Religious Knowledge Production (Vanessa Rau) -- Chapter 3. Feminine power and agency in the Ilê Axé Oxum Abalô (Inga Scharf da Silva) -- Chapter 4. Queering the Trinity (Teresa Forcades) -- Chapter 5. Dead or Dying: Jewish Religious Cultures and Brain Death as the Modern Mind-Body Dualism (Sarah Werren) -- Chapter 6. Religion, interdependency and the ethics of inhabiting in Jill Soloway's »Transparent« (Stefan Hunglinger) -- Chapter 7. Contesting Religion, or: The Impossibility of Secular Singing (Vanessa Rau) -- Part 2. Religion and Economics – Interaction of Two Discursive Spheres (Philipp Öhlmann) -- Chapter 8. Neoliberal Technologies, Intimacy and the Becoming of the Sacred (Céline Righi) -- Chapter 9. Faith and Professionalism in Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Earthquake Haiti (Andrea Steinke) -- Chapter 10. Notions of Development in African Initiated Churches and their Implications for Development Policy (Philipp Öhlmann, Marie-Luise Frost, Wilhelm Gräb) -- Part 3. The Praxis of Religion, Theologies and Knowledge Production: Overcoming the Dichotomy between Inside and Outside Perspective(s) on Religion (Julian Hensold, Rosa-Coco Schinagl) -- Chapter 11. The Study of Religion as the Study of Discourse Construction (Gerhard van den Heever) -- Chapter 12. Beyond a Dichotomy of Perspectives. Understanding Religion on the Base of Paul Natorp's »Logic of Boundary« (Julian Hensold) -- Chapter 13. Scientific Spirituality«: The Religion for Global Thought Transformation(Manaswita Singh) -- Chapter 14. An Islamic Theology of Culture: Nizari Ismaili Thought in the 21st Century (Mohammad Magout) -- Part 4. Religion, Politics and Power — Decentered analyses (Jordan Kynes, Adela Taleb) -- Chapter 15. Religious or political – Does it matter at all? The Analysis of a Blessing Prayer-Chain for the Hungarian Prime Minister (Anna Vancsó) -- Chapter 16. Rethinking the Religion/Secularism Binary in World Politics (Md. Abdul Gaffar) -- Chapter 17. Making Global Connections: Reflections on Teaching Islam and Middle Eastern History (Arun Rasiah) -- Chapter 18. Configurations of European Muslim Subjectivities on the European Union Level (Adela Taleb) -- Chapter 19. Science and Ideology: The History of Science in the French Epistemological Tradition as Polemical Platform for the Anticolonial Intellectual Project of Muhammad 'Abed al-Jabri (Jordan Kynes).

Chapter1. Preface (Wilhelm Krull) -- Chapter2. Introduction (Anna Körs, Wolfram Weisse and Jean-Paul Willaime) -- Chapter3. The Role of Religion for Living Together in a Diverse Society (Aydan Özoguz) -- Chapter4. Toward a New Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age (Peter L. Berger) -- Chapter5. Global Migration, Religious Diversity and Dialogue: Towards a Post-Westphalian Circumstance (Peter Beyer) -- Chapter6. The Established and the Newcomers. A Weberian-Bourdieusian View of Congregations in the Swiss Religious Field (Jörg Stolz and Christophe Monnot) -- Chapter7. Integration, Laïcité and Religion in France (Jean-Paul Willaime) -- Chapter8. Governance of Religious Diversity – Socio-Legal Dynamics in Europe (Matthias Koenig) -- Chapter9. Formulas of Peace? Interreligious actors and the local governance of religious diversity in Europe (Maria del Mal Griera) -- Chapter10. "Laïcité in the Make": Negotiating Secularism and Religious Diversity in the French Local Context (Julia Martínez Ariño) -- Chapter11. Crossing the lines? Interfaith Governance as an arena of boundary work (Alexander Kenneth-Nagel) -- Chapter12. Governance of Religious Diversity in Local Context – the Case Study of Hamburg (Anna Körs) -- Chapter13. A territorial perspective on religious pluralization in Europe (Nicola Tietze) -- Chapter14. Attacks in Paris: when the France of believers rediscovers a common soul (Jonathan Richard) -- Chapter15. Narrating Stability within Interreligious Dialogue. First Results of a Qualitative Inquiry on Consequences of Plurality Experiences for Religious Identity (Gritt Klinkhammer and Anna Neumaier) -- Chapter16. Perception and Political Meaning of Religious Plurality and the Role of Media (Gert Pickel) -- Chapter17. Contribution of Religious Education to a Better Living Together in Europe (Robert Jackson) -- Chapter18. Religious Education in Contextual Perspective (Thorsten Knauth and Dörthe Vieregge) -- Chapter19. Concepts and Praxis of Inter-Religious and Socio-Religious Dialogue (Reinhold Bernhardt) -- Chapter20. Dialogue in the Public Sphere: "Not an ambulance service, but a public health programme" (Anantanand Rambachan) -- Chapter21. The Relevance of Interreligious Dialogue in the Public Sphere. Some Misgivings (Perry Schmidt-Leukel) -- Chapter22. Interreligious Dialogue in the Public Spere. An Alevi Perpective (Handan Aksünger) -- Chapter23. Interreligious Dialogue. Challenges and Prospects within a Secular State and Postsecular Society (Johannes Frühbauer) -- Chapter24. Dialogical Theology – Doing Theology Together. A Buddhist Response to the Challenge of Religious Pluralisation (Carola Roloff) -- Chapter25. Self and Other in Contemporary Buddhist Inter-Communal Relations: Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist Nationalist and Buddhist Theological Perspectives (Sallie B. King) -- Chapter26. Interreligious Encounter and Human Rights. A Jewish Vantage Point (Ephraim Meir) -- Chapter27. Dialogical Theology and Social Engagement (Paul Knitter).

Section A: Ethnicity and identity in the contemporary era (12 chapters) -- 1) Ethnicity, race and identity today: Theoretical debates -- 2) Ethnic classification and pluralism in a globalized world -- 3) Ethno-cultural symbolism and group identity -- 4) Ethnic boundaries and cross-ethnic relationships -- 5) Cultural socialization and ethnic consciousness -- 6) Kinship, tribe, genealogy and ethnicity -- 7) Ethnicity, class and nation in a changing world -- 8) Ethnic identity, power and the modern state -- 9) Historical memory and ethnic myths -- 10) Ethnic identity and the notion of motherland and land rights -- 11) Cyberspace, ethnicity and virtual identities -- 12) Globalization and multiple identities -- Section B: The state, society and ethno-politics (9 chapters) -- 1) The significance of ethno-politics in modern states and society -- 2) The state, citizenship and ethnic classification -- 3) Multiculturalism and state ideology -- 4) Assimilation and integration- Forced and voluntary -- 5) Regulating and legislating ethnic relations -- 6) The state and ethnic relations in China -- 7) Regime change and ethnic relations in Sudan -- 8) Ethnic state and communal policies in Indonesia -- 9) State secularism and ethnic assimilation in France -- Section C: Racial prejudice and stereotypes (11 chapters) -- 1) What is racism and how is it manifested?- 2) Construction of ethnic stereotypes -- 3) 9/11, "war on terror" and racial profiling, Police and racial profiling in UK and US -- 4) Structural racism and inequality -- 5) The basis of colonial racism and impact today -- 6) Media, racism and Islamophobia -- 7) White supremacist groups -- 8) Apartheid and post-apartheid racism -- 9) The resurgence of right-wing politics in Europe and US -- 10) Racial framing in global security -- 11) Colonialism, neo-colonialism and racial myths -- Section D: Conflict and ethno-nationalism (11 chapters) -- Section E: Intersectionality, mixed heritage and multiple identities (9 chapters) -- Section F: Indigenous groups and minorities (10 chapters) -- Section G: Globalization and Diaspora (12 chapters) -- Section H: Ethnic labour (14 chapters) -- Section I: Socio-economic conditions and ethnic policy responses (6 chapters) -- Section J: Ethnicity, constitutions and electoral systems (10 chapters) -- Section K: Ethnic cleansing, genocide and international justice (8 chapters) -- Section L: Immigration and refugees (12 chapters) -- Section M: Ethnic inequality and affirmative action (8 chapters) -- Section N: Addressing the ethnicity problems (12 chapters) -- Section O: Cultural renaissance and celebration of identity

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Table of Legislation -- Table of Cases -- Introduction /T. Jeremy Gunn , Jeroen Temperman and Malcolm Evans -- Pre-Kokkinakis and Post-Kokkinakis Developments -- Pre-Kokkinakis Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights: Foreshadowing the Future /Carolyn Evans -- The Freedom of Religion or Belief in the European Court of Human Rights since the Kokkinakis case Or "Quoting Kokkinakis" /Malcolm Evans -- Article 9 Jurisprudence: General Contours -- Manifestations of Religion or Belief in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights /Javier Martínez-Torrón -- Limitations on Freedom of Religion and Belief in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights /Mark Hill and Katherine Barnes -- Avoiding Scrutiny? The Margin of Appreciation and Religious Freedom /Stephanie E. Berry -- Marginal Neutrality – Neutrality and the Margin of Appreciation in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights /Malcolm Evans and Peter Petkoff -- Religion Jurisprudence: Thematic Studies -- Kokkinakis and the Narratives of Proper and Improper Proselytizing /Brett G. Scharffs -- Education and Freedom of Religion or Belief under the European Convention on Human Rights and Protocol No. 1 /Jeroen Temperman -- Religion and Equality: From Managing Pluralism towards a European Requirement of State Neutrality /Renáta Uitz -- Freedom of Religion or Belief and Employment Law: The Evolving Approach of the European Court of Human Rights /Lucy Vickers -- Freedom of Religion or Belief and Freedom of Association: Intersecting Rights in the Jurisprudence of the European Convention Mechanisms /Ioana Cismas -- Conscientious Objection under the European Convention on Human Rights: The Ugly Duckling of a Flightless Jurisprudence /Stijn Smet -- Religion, Expression and Pluralism /Agnès Callamard -- Religious Symbols and State Regulation: Assessing the Strategic Role of the European Court of Human Rights /Dominic McGoldrick -- Reflections -- The Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights in Light of Its Article 9 Jurisprudence: A Multisided Perspective /Eva Brems and Saïla Ouald-Chaib -- Implementation and Impact of Strasbourg Court Rulings: The Case of Religious Minorities and Their Convention Freedoms /Dia Anagnostou -- Grassroots Level Awareness about Religion at the European Court of Human Rights /Effie Fokas -- A Matter of Judgment: Dissenting Opinions in Cases Concerning Religion or Belief in the European Court of Human Rights /Sophie van Bijsterveld -- The "Principle of Secularism" and the European Court of Human Rights: A Shell Game /T. Jeremy Gunn -- Back Matter -- Bibliography.

History and the making of contemporary Turkey -- Turkish politics : structures and dynamics / Samim Akgönul & Baskin Oran -- Turkey's never ending search for democracy / Ilter Turan -- Turkish secularism : looking forward and beyond the west / Murat Somer -- Political Islam / Kristin Fabbe & Efe Murat Balikçioglu -- The politics of Turkish nationalism : continuity and change / Durukan Kuzu -- Politics and institutions -- Elections, parties and the party system / Ersin Kalaycioglu -- The presidency in Turkish politics : from independence to the AKP / Menderes Çinar & Nalan Soyarik Sentürk -- Civil military relations / Metin Heper -- NGOs and civil society / Markus Ketola -- The media and media policy / Eylm Yanardagoglu -- The economy, environment and development -- Political economy / Ali Burak Güven -- Energy security and policy : between bandwagoning and hedging / H. Akin Ünver -- The politics of environment and climate change / Ümit Sahin -- The eonomic role of cities / Stephen Karam -- Governing the diaspora(s) and the limits of diaspora diplomacy / Bahar Baser -- Disaster management policy and governance / Helena Hermansson & Naim Kapucu -- The Kurdish insurgency and security -- The Kurdish question / Zeynep N. Kaya & Matthew Whiting -- The Kurdish insurgency / David Romano -- The perennial Kurdish question and failed peace processes / Cengiz Çandar -- Terrorism, counter-insurgency and societal relations / Gareth Jenkins -- The village guard system : counter-insurgency and local collaboration / Evren Balta -- The 15 July 2016 failed coup and the security sector / Yaprak Gürsoy -- State, society and rights -- Human rights / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat -- Gender politics and the women's movement / Sevgi Adak -- Religious minorities / Samim Akgönül -- Religious education / Bekir S. G̈ür -- The transformation of health and healthcare : transitioning from consuming healthcare to producing and maintaining health / Enis Baris -- External relations -- Foreign policy, 1923-2018 / Mustafa Aydin -- Resetting foreign policy in a time of global turmoil / E. Fuat Keyman -- Turkey and its neighbours in the Middle East : Iran, Iraq and Syria / Behlül Özkan -- US-Turkish relations in turmoil / Kemal Kirisci -- Turkey and Russia / Pavel K. Baev -- Will you marry me? Who proposes? Forgotten promises and the possibilities for reviving relations between Turkey and the EU / Füsun Özerdem -- Turkey's Cyprus policy in transition / Birol A. Yesilada -- Turkey-NATO relations : strategic imperatives, identity-building and predicaments / Müge Kinacioglu -- Turkey and UN peace keeping missions / Haluk Karadag -- Turkey as an emerging global humanitarian and peacebuilding actor / Alpaslan Özerdem.

Contemporary Turkish politics have long been roiled by cultural and social debates rooted in the legacy of modernization initiated in the 1920s by Mustafa Kemal Atati?1/2rk. Islamist challenges to Ataturk's secularism, to political corruption and economic inefficiency, and debates over the meaning of human rights, all remain open to argument-in Ankara as well as elsewhere. Undoubtedly they exert influence on Turkey's position in world affairs and reinforce its double identity between the West and the Islamic world. Dangerous Neighborhood examines Turkish foreign policy problems, both with its immediate neighbors in the Caucasus and Middle East and in its essential strategic relations with the European Union and the United States. How important is Washington for Turkey's strategic interests, considering its controversial relations with the European Union? The Kurdish problem has affected Turkey's bid for EU membership, and also its relations with the United States as the war on terrorism is pursued. Are Turkish values and national interests, based on the legacy of Atati?1/2rk, compatible with minority rights, as defined by the European Union, and if not, why not? Moreover, is there any advantage to Turkey in joining the European Union, or is the price too high, relating to human rights concessions and legal issues? These important questions are examined in this volume. In the Caucasus, Turkey is an important factor, if for no other reason than its size and common borders. Turkey's role, whether Ankara likes it or not, remains important for both Russian ambitions and local ethnic groups seeking either autonomy or independence-Chechens, Abkhaz, Circassians, among others. Ankara's dilemma is whether to support co-nationals and co-religionists or to seek normal relations with Moscow. The solution to this dilemma is debated in this volume. In other parts of the world, Turkey also plays a central role. For example, Ankara's close military and political relations with Israel contribute to a different strategic and military balance in the Middle East. Turkey's views are seldom made public, and few Turks have believed it is important to present their case. This book, with contributors from Turkey as well as the West, is intended in part to broaden understanding of Turkey's position. Dangerous Neighborhood will be of interest to political scientists, foreign policy analysts, and Middle East specialists.

A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler uses the chance synchronicity of the 2013 Israeli parliamentary elections and literary theorist Judith Butler's controversial Brooklyn College address calling for the boycotting of Israeli academic, cultural, and economic institutions as an occasion for examining possible relations between Jewishness and state-centered forms of self-governance. In an extended analysis of Butler's Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, Tucker shows how the alignment of certain authors' identities and ideas undergirding Butler's analytical framework draws upon a pointedly Christian conception of belief. This Christian conception of belief structures the most familiar understandings of modern secularism, articulated most famously by John Locke in his "Letter Concerning Toleration." Tucker reads Locke's "Letter"' alongside Jewish philosopher/rabbi Moses Mendelssohn's 1783 critique of Locke, Jerusalem: Or On Religious Power and Judaism, and the Jewish tradition of the minyan, making a case for the existence of an alternative history of publicness borrowing from Jewish conceptions of communal life and the proper relations of actions and ideas. In throwing light on a genealogy of Jewish practices aimed at the deliberate creation of collectives constituted by their grappling with contingent, historical time, Tucker argues for the existence of a Jewish tradition of republicanism, of democracy. Within such a context, the Jewishness of Israel can be seen to lie first and foremost in its methods of generating a civil collective out of a diverse citizenry rather than in the identities of its individual citizens. The tradition Tucker has in mind explicitly uses an idea of ritual or "ceremonial law" to sustain within itself a tension between a heterogeneity of perspectives and interests constitutive of democratic process and the forms of unity and agreement often understood to be the desired outcome of that process. By setting forth a framework in which heterogeneity and agreement are conceived as coincident modes of political being rather than steps in a linear process, this "Jewish republicanism" frames law-making, implementation and following as forms of a single structure of ritual practice. Such a framework might provide the inspiration and authority for reconceiving some of the fundamental relations of the Zionist project

"A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers. Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly understood. American democracy was intended by its creators to be more than just a political system, and in The Religion of Democracy, historian Amy Kittelstrom shows how religion and democracy have worked together as universal ideals in American culture--and as guides to moral action and the social practice of treating one another as equals who deserve to be free. The first people in the world to call themselves 'liberals' were New England Christians in the early republic, for whom being liberal meant being receptive to a range of beliefs and values. The story begins in the mid-eighteenth century, when the first Boston liberals brought the Enlightenment into Reformation Christianity, tying equality and liberty to the human soul at the same moment these root concepts were being tied to democracy. The nineteenth century saw the development of a robust liberal intellectual culture in America, built on open-minded pursuit of truth and acceptance of human diversity. By the twentieth century, what had begun in Boston as a narrow, patrician democracy transformed into a religion of democracy in which the new liberals of modern America believed that where different viewpoints overlap, common truth is revealed. The core American principles of liberty and equality were never free from religion but full of religion. The Religion of Democracy re-creates the liberal conversation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth by tracing the lived connections among seven thinkers through whom they knew, what they read and wrote, where they went, and how they expressed their opinions--from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams; from Boston to Chicago to Berkeley. Sweeping and ambitious, The Religion of Democracy is a lively narrative of quintessentially American ideas as they were forged, debated, and remade across our history"--

Foundations: church and state in Ancien Régime Britain -- The brief rise and fall of the Australian colonial established church -- The coming of plural establishment -- The separation of church and state -- Education, religion, and citizenship -- A secular constitution? The Federation debates -- The moral economy of the early Australian commonwealth -- Civil religion: from civic Protestantism to the Anzac tradition -- Citizenship, the nation, and religion -- Christian Australia: resurgence and retreat -- Culture, gender, sexuality: dechristianising the secular? -- Conclusion: beyond the secular-religion divide -- Beyond the secular-religion Divide.