SRS 2195 Chapter Notes -Arend Lijphart, Alevism, Robert A. Dahl

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 2195
• Professor: Peter Beyer

Document Summary

Introduction: the multiple secularisms of modern democratic and non-democratic. Secularism: the view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element. (dictionaryreference. com) Twin tolerations : democracies don"t necessarily need the concept of secularism but democratic institutions do need sufficient political space from religion to function. (just as citizens need to be given sufficient space by democratic institutions to exercise their religion. ) Secularism can be and has been an integral part of non-democracies and is therefore not a sufficient condition of democracy and not necessary for its analysis. There are multiple types of secularisms that can fulfill the twin tolerations . Respect all, positive cooperation, principled distance (india, senegal and indonesia) No, robert dahl, arend lijphart and juan l. linz (1st 3 winners of the nobel prize of political science) did not feel the need to include any discussion of secularism in their definitions of modern democracies.