Church and state

Religious Freedom:

Accepting Muslim immigrants and providing for their religious needs and practices is an unprecedented challenge for Western European governments. States have responded in very different ways, but the existing scholarly literature has failed to account for this variation. Based o…

It is very common to defend laiklik by invoking laïtcité. This dissertation puts the constitutions of laiklik and laïcité in their respective historical contexts, in order to locate the reasons behind the changes in the meanings of the concepts and behind the changes in the conc…

National Conferences of Catholic Bishops throughout the world have assumed new postures as watchdogs regarding state policies and programs in the post Vatican II period, and increasingly asserted themselves in the public arena with emphasis on social action and human rights issu…