Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions: Contemporary Entanglements of Faith and Government

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Nahshon Perez (Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University)

Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions

Contemporary Entanglements of Faith and Government

Nahshon Perez (Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
01 May 2023

Religion & politics; Church history; Christian institutions & organisations

The institutional entanglement of religion and government takes many forms, including direct governmental funding of religious associations, legal recognition, and governmental endorsement of religious symbols in public spaces. The entanglement of church and state remains contentious in many democratic countries today. In fact, in Europe and North America, there are a growing number of instances of governments becoming entwined with religious matters.

Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions explores the entanglement of religion and government in a comparative analysis of four cases within democratic countries: the British Jewish Free School (JFS) case, in which the U.K. Supreme Court forced a government-funded faith school to change its admission policies; The European Court of Human Rights decision in Martinez, in which the Catholic church kept its right to dismiss religion teachers within the Spanish public school system; The Lautsi case, in which the Italian government successfully defended its policy of

mandating a crucifix in all

public school classrooms -

at the European Court of Human Rights; and the case of the Bladensburg World War I Memorial (often called the Peace Cross) in Maryland, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross's public placement and maintenance funding does not violate the non-establishment clause of the First Amendment. Perez describes how these cases create complex, hybrid religious-statist institutions and outlines a novel framework for understanding these cases.

By: Nahshon Perez (Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies Bar Ilan University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 242mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 413g
ISBN: 9780197579718
ISBN 10: 019757971X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Method, Concepts, and Bottom-Up Research Chapter 2: Immunity, Government Funded Religious Associations, and Non-discrimination Rules: Examining the JFS and the Martinez Cases Chapter 3: Hegemonic Religions, Public Spaces, and Established churches Chapter 4: Entanglement of Faith and Government: Institutional Lessons from a Casuistic Research Conclusion

Nahshon Perez is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University. His books include: Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in Five Contested Sacred Sites and Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites, both with Oxford University Press (co-authored with Y. Jobani).

Reviews for Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions: Contemporary Entanglements of Faith and Government

Is there anything new to say about the entanglement of religion and the state? On the evidence of Nahshon Perez's book , the answer is an emphatic yes . What distinguishes this work is its remarkable methodological self-awareness. Perez defends a novel approach to doing political ethics, which combines casuistry and what he calls a contextual methodology, and which jointly yield rich and quite novel theoretical dividends. This book will be a must-read for both political theorists and for empirical researchers working on the relationship between the state and religion. * Daniel Weinstock, Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, McGill University *