Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Question of Religion's Role in Politics and Society Modernization, Secularization, and Beyond?
- 3 Quantifying Religion
- 4 Global GIR from 1990 to 2002
- 5 Western Democracies
- 6 The Former Soviet Bloc
- 7 Asia
- 8 The Middle East and North Africa
- 9 Sub-Saharan Africa
- 10 Latin America
- 11 Patterns and Trends
- 12 Conclusions
- Appendix: Data Collection and Reliability
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Western Democracies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Question of Religion's Role in Politics and Society Modernization, Secularization, and Beyond?
- 3 Quantifying Religion
- 4 Global GIR from 1990 to 2002
- 5 Western Democracies
- 6 The Former Soviet Bloc
- 7 Asia
- 8 The Middle East and North Africa
- 9 Sub-Saharan Africa
- 10 Latin America
- 11 Patterns and Trends
- 12 Conclusions
- Appendix: Data Collection and Reliability
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The previous chapter provides an analysis of global trends in government involvement in religion (GIR) and separation of religion and state (SRAS). This chapter and the following five chapters are intended to provide a more detailed look at the relationship between religion and state. This includes an examination of each of the 62 types of GIR measured by the RAS dastaset for each of the 175 countries included in the dataset.
SOME GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE REGION BY REGION ANALYSIS
This chapter examines GIR and SRAS in Western democracies. The RAS project divides the world into six regions based on a previous division by a large-scale data collection project – the Minorities at Risk dataset, which focuses on ethnic conflict. The following five chapters each focus on another of these world regions. This use of world regions is appropriate as the countries within each of these six world regions share many cultural traits and tend to have a common history.
The regional analysis in these chapters is intended to provide a snapshot of the extent of GIR for each world region in 2002 as well as for each of the 175 individual countries included in the RAS dataset. This includes a listing of each country's score on the official GIR, general restrictions, and general GIR variables and a listing of which countries engage in each of the 60 specific types of religious discrimination, religious regulation, and religious legislation.
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- A World Survey of Religion and the State , pp. 105 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008