Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Northern Europe, 1780-1920
Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
ISBN: 978-90-5867-825-6
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Before the last quarter of the eighteenth century there was a generally clear and remarkably uniform pattern of church-state relationships across Europe. In the course of the nineteenth century this firm alliance between political and religious establishments broke down. Religious pluralism developed everywhere, though at different speeds, requiring church and state to reach fresh solutions. This volume Political and Legal Perspectives highlights the impact of broad political change, ‘democratization', on the question of religious reform, in Northern Europe. Competing political parties expressed contrasting views about whether ‘the state' should be ‘neutral' or whether it should give particular support to one or other churches. It is hardly surprising that there was no simple ‘one fits it all' solution. Some countries were multi-confessional where others were still in some sense confessional. This volume shows a set of problems and circumstances which were often common but which led to outcomes which were, and to an extent still remain, ‘different'. The research focus of this book is historical but how ‘the state' deals with ‘the church' (and ‘the church' with ‘the state') continues to be a live and pressing public issue in a multi-confessional and multi-faith European Union.
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Contents
Introduction
Keith Robbins
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland
The Reform and Extension of Established Churches in the United Kingdom, 1780-1870
Stewart J. Brown
Church Establishment, Disestablishment and Democracyin the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1870-1920
Keith Robbins
Bibliography
The Low Countries
Liberal State and Confessional Accommodation
The Southern Netherlands / Belgium
Emiel Lamberts
Dutch Political Developments and Religious Reform
James C. Kennedy
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Germany
Constitutional Complexity and Confessional Diversity
Heiner de Wall & Andreas Gestrich
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The Nordic Countries
State and Church in Denmark and Norway
Liselotte Malmgart
Political Reform in Sweden
Anders Jarlert
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Index
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