Church and State in Contemporary Europe: Church and State in Europe

This volume represents an attempt in integrating a wide range of theoretically relevant issues into the identification and analysis of church-state patterns. Each chapter focuses on the analysis of a particular theme and its role in shaping, and/or being shaped by, church-state relations. European liberal democracy and the principle of state religious neutrality / John T.S. Madeley A framework for the comparative analysis of church-state relations in Europe / John T.S. Madeley Church-state separation Swedish-style / Göran Gustafsson The illusion of state neutrality in a secularising Ireland / Bill Kissane The Italian state : no longer Catholic, no longer Christian / Mark Donovan Orthodoxy and nationalism in the Greek case / George Th. Mavrogordatos Catholicism and democratic consolidation in Spain and Poland / John Anderson The contested politics of positive neutrality in Hungary / Zsolt Enyedi The Catholic Church and civil society : democratic options in the post-communist Czech Republic / Joan O'Mahony The policy impact of church-state relations : family policy and abortion in Britain, France, and Germany / Michael Minkenberg Conclusion: Emerging issues in the study of church-state relations / Zsolt Enyedi. This volume represents an attempt in integrating a wide range of theoretically relevant issues into the identification and analysis of church-state patterns. Confessional heritage, national identity, the embeddedness of churches in civil society, formal and informal aspects of state religious neutrality (and its limits), secularization, the religious appeals of parties, and public policy formation in sensitive areas constitute the major contextural variables. Each chapter, in addition to discussing recent developments in a particular country or region of Europe, focuses on the analysis of one or other of the above mentioned themes and its role in shaping and/or being shaped by, church-state relations

political Scientists And Sociologists Consider The Situation At The End Of The 20th Century From Such Perspectives As A Framework For Comparative Analysis; Separation Of Church And State In Sweden; Italy As A Post-catholic And Post-christian State; Catholicism And Democratic Consolidation In Spain And Poland; Orthodoxy And Nationalism In Greece; Democratic Options In The Post-communist Czech Republic; And Family Policy And Abortions In Britain, France, And Germany. Distributed In The Us By Isbs. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or