Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy: New challenges for Society and Research
Anna-Sara Lind · Mia Lövheim · Ulf Zackariasson
Mar 2016 · Nordic Academic Press
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How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? In Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy the authors study the interaction and negotiations between religious organizations and religious citizens on the one hand, and the state, the judicial system, the media, and secular citizens on the other.
Religion has become increasingly visible in contemporary society and is, more often than before, recognized as a public matter and not merely a private issue. As such it presents new challenges or opportunities to scholarly research and to society at large. The contributors to this volume shed light on what follows when expressions of religion meet different spheres of society.
The authors explicitly point to the need to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the roles played by religion in society today. By presenting case studies, fresh perspectives and new questions they suggest that deeper knowledge is best achieved by further, increasingly nuanced interdisciplinary research.
About the author
Anna-Sara Lind is Associate professor in Public law, University of Uppsala. Lind is the Deputy Director of the program Impact of Religion - Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy.
Mia Lövheim is Professor of History of Religions and The Social Sciences of Religion at Department of Theology, University of Uppsala.
Ulf Zackariasson is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Forces by Which We Live: Religion and Religious Experience from the Perspective of a Pragmatic Philosophical Anthropology as well as a number of journal articles and book chapters on pragmatic philosophy of religion.
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