Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy

Published by Columbia University Press 2015

Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy

Edited by: Jean Cohen and Cécile Laborde

Volume 20 in the series Religion, Culture, and Public Life

https://doi.org/10.7312/cohe16870

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Incorporating philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, this collection identifies the connections between religion and the state that are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe.

Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges.

Author / Editor information

Cohen Jean :

Jean L. Cohen (PhD, Sociology, The New School) is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Political Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Civil Society and Political Theory (MIT, 1992); Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory (Massachusetts, 1982); Regulating Intimacy: a New Legal Paradigm (Princeton, 2002); and Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legitimacy and Legality (Cambridge, 2012).Laborde Cécile :

Cécile Laborde (PhD, Politics, Oxford) is Professor of Political Theory at University College London. She is the author of Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy (Oxford, 2008), Français, encore un effort pour être républicains (Seuil, 2010), Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900-1925 (Macmillan, 2000), and Liberalism's Religion (Harvard, forthcoming). I chose her as a reader because of her expertise in secularism, republicanism and multiculturalism, theories of law and the state, and global justice.Jean L. Cohen is the Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is the coauthor of Civil Society and Political Theory and the author of Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory; Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm; and Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legitimacy and Legality.

Cécile Laborde is a professor of political theory at University College London and a fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France and Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy.

Reviews

Andrew F. March, author of Islam and Liberal Citizenship:
This volume is practically a 'who's-who' of the very top scholars writing on religion, secularism, and cultural pluralism. It sits at the cutting edge of debates in all of these fields and will be required reading in seminar rooms across North America and Europe.

Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt:
The question of the proper role of religion in a secular state, once thought settled, has reemerged as a major challenge to contemporary democracies. The essays in this superb volume address the many aspects of this question with depth and clarity, connecting normative, historical, and institutional analyses in an exemplary way. Taken together, the contributions do more than represent the state of the art in this field of research; rather, they take it to a new level of refinement.

John P. McCormick, University of Chicago:
Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy critically confronts the contemporary resurgence of 'political theology' with theoretical and philosophical sophistication while nevertheless exhibiting an admirable commitment to respect and tolerance of religious observance and plurality. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of religion and politics today.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Jean L. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Freedom of Religion or Human Rights
1. Religious Freedom and the Fate of Secularism Samuel Moyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Religion: Ally, Threat, or Just Religion? Anne Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Regulating Religion Beyond Borders The Case of FGM/C Yasmine Ergas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4. Pluralism vs. Pluralism Islam and Christianity in the European Court of Human Rights Christian Joppke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part II: Nonestablishments and Freedom of Religion
5. Rethinking Political Secularism and the American Model of Constitutional Dualism Jean L. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6. Is European Secularism Secular Enough? Rajeev Bhargava Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
7. State-Religion Connections and Multicultural Citizenship Tariq Modood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
8. Breaching the Wall of Separation Denis Lacorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
9. Transnational Nonestablishment (Redux) Claudia E. Haupt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Part III: Religion, Liberalism, and Democracy
10. Liberal Neutrality, Religion, and the Good Cécile Laborde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
11. Religious Arguments and Public Justification Aurélia Bardon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
12. Religious Truth and Democratic Freedom A Critique of the Religious Discourse of Anti-Relativism Carlo Invernizzi Accetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
13. Republicanism and Freedom of Religion in France Michel Troper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Part IV: Sovereignty and Legal Pluralism in Constitutional Democracies
14. Sovereignty and Religious Norms in the Secular Constitutional State Dieter Grimm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
15. Religion and Minority Legal Orders Maleiha Malik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
16. The Intersection of Civil and Religious Family Law in the U.S. Constitutional Order A Mild Legal Pluralism Linda C. McClain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
17. Religion-Based Legal Pluralism and Human Rights in Europe Alicia Cebada Romero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	400
Conclusion: Is Religion Special? Cécile Laborde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 464

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Published: April 11, 2016
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