CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Mihajlovic, Luka |
|---|---|
| Title | Militant Secularism and Opposite Trends - Cases of Turkey, France and Serbia |
| Summary | Modern day European states are secular democratic states, even if they have state churches because the political and the religious features some kind of separation in those states as well. However, with the increase of religious elements in the public sphere some states have adopted a stand of militant secularism, actively striving to remove those religious elements that they perceive as antidemocratic from the public sphere with the justification that the principle of secularism is an inherent part of their democratic order and that the state has a right to defend itself against religious elements that it perceives as antidemocratic. Good examples of states that practice militant secularism are Turkey and France. On the other hand, after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and reintroduction of religious freedoms, the danger for secularism in this part of Europe comes from the national churches which dominate the public space and enjoy progressively stronger support of the state which leads to stifling of minority rights. The example of this trend discussed in this paper is Serbia. |
| Supervisor | Uitz Renáta |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/mihajlovic_luka.pdf |
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