Religion and Democracy

100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. Today, organised religion is still a powerful political force in most parts of the world. In many its political significance has grown. But is it an ally or an enemy of pluralist democracy? This crucial question provides the theme for this path-breaking collection.

David Marquand is Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. A member of the editorial board of Political Quarterly, his research interests include political economy, British Government and Politics and the history of the British and European left.

Ronald L. Nettler is Fellow and Tutor in Oriental Studies, Mansfield College, Oxford, and Hebrew Centre Lecturer in Oriental Studies, Oxford University. His main interest is in Islamic and Jewish religious thought, medieval and modern.

Notes on Contributors

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Foreword

1

(4)

David Marquand

Ronald L. Nettler

Secularism?

5

(15)

John Keane

Living with Difference in India

20

(19)

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

Lloyd Rudolph

Religion and Democracy in Israel

39

(11)

Emanuele Ottolenghi

Islam, Politics and Democracy: Mohamed Talbi and Islamic Modernism

50

(10)

Ronald L. Nettler

Trajectories of Political Islam: Egypt, Iran and Turkey

60

(19)

Sami Zubaida

American Fundamentalism and the Selling of God

79

(11)

Harold Perkin

The Quiet Continent: Religion and Politics in Europe

90

(14)

Colin Crouch

J. N. Figgis, Churches and the State

104

(17)

Paul Hirst

Making the Christian World Safe for Liberalism: from Grotius to Rawls

121

(20)

Timothy Samuel Shah

Index

141

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