Table of Contents
Introduction / William Safran -- Religion and politics in American democracy / Horst Mewes -- Religion and politics in the United States / Corwin Smidt ...et al. -- Religion and laèicitâe in a Jacobin republic: the case of France / William Safran -- The significance of religion in British politics / Josephine E. Squires -- Religion, national identity, and the conflict in Northern Ireland / Adrian Guelke -- Church and state after transition to democracy: the case of Spain / Victor Urrutia Abaigar -- Poland's transition to a democratic republic: the taming of the sacred? / Ray Taras -- Greece: a problematic secular state / Adamantia Pollis -- Religion and collective identity: the ethnopolitical barriers to democratization in the Balkans / Steven Majstorovic -- Religion, politics, and democracy in Turkey / Joseph S. Szyliowicz -- Religion and state in Israel: another round of an ancient conflict among the Jews / Ira Sharkansky -- Secularism in India: accepted principle, contentious interpretation / Swarna Rajagopalan.