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Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey

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Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey - Kuru, Ahmet T.
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Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries. More specifically, it analyzes why American state policies are largely tolerant of religion, whereas French and Turkish policies generally prohibit its public visibility, as seen in their bans on Muslim headscarves. In the United States, the dominant ideology is 'passive ...

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Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521741347

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Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521517805

Hardcover