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- Exposes the contemporary relationship between religion and the state from a philosophical perspective
- Presents a philosophical argumentation for church-financing and for a hands-off policy toward religion whilst systematically elaborating the conditions for financing
- Provides useful guidelines to improve actual church-state policies Collates the work of a group of top scholars on the much debated issue of liberal neutrality
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life (BSPR, volume 5)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Liberalism and Neutrality
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Front Matter
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Liberal Neutrality and State Support for Religion
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Church-State Models and Liberal Neutrality
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“The particular richness and real contribution of Leni Franken’s work is the application of liberal theories of justice, which are rarely focused on religion, to the question of the legitimacy of financial state support for religion. … Leni Franken’s work shows that, even though we cannot claim that a state should finance religion in order to be neutral in a political liberal sense, we can at least say that the state can consider such financial support, without losing its neutrality.” (Stéphanie Wattier, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, April, 2017)
“Franken has written an excellent and clear book on the question of the relations between State and Church and on the question of State support for religion within the context of liberalism Writing. ... I recommend this book not only to philosophers, theologians and political thinkers,but also to politicians, especially liberal politicians.” (Norbert Campagna, Ethical Perspectives, Vol. 24 (2), 2017)
“This volume collates the work of top scholars in the field. … A number of concrete church-state models, including hands-off, religious accommodation and the state church are evaluated, and the book gives some recommendations in order to optimize those church-state models, where needed. Practitioners and scholars of politics, law, philosophy and education, especially religious education, will find this work of particular interest as it has useful guidelines on policies and practices, as well as studies of church-state models.” (Georg Neureither, Religion - Weltanschauung - Recht (RWR), religion-weltanschauung-recht.net, May, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
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Centre Pieter Gillis, University of Antwerp Centre Pieter Gillis, Antwerp, Belgium
Leni Franken
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Liberal Neutrality and State Support for Religion
Authors: Leni Franken
Series Title: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28944-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28942-7Published: 26 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80460-6Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28944-1Published: 18 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2352-8206
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8214
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 211
Topics: Political Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Education, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Religion and Education