CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Tchiabrishvili, Ana |
|---|---|
| Title | Agreements Between State and the Churches: Model of Cooperation or Green Light to Privileges Examples from Spain, Italy and Georgia |
| Summary | The classical view about religion-state relations distinguishes between the state-church, the separation, and the cooperation models. This thesis will compare Spain, Italy and Georgia considered to have basic characteristic of the cooperation model. It will be asked whether these three countries have more similarities than differences and whether it is still justified to consider the arrangements similar to the one in Georgia under the cooperation model. For this, constitutional frameworks of these countries will be analyzed vis a vis sub-constitutional reality and practical standing of different religious organizations. Then, it will be argued that classification of the situation in Georgia as a cooperation model significantly departs from the rationale behind it. Namely, the cooperation model in Georgia is abused with integrating only one component of it, such as conclusion of agreements, and disregarding all other characteristics and the basic rationale behind it. While cooperation models may still survive in a more robust democratic states, the platform for special agreements with religions, is a dangerous one for state of dominant religious models, like Georgia. |
| Supervisor | Uitz, Renata |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/tchiabrishvili_ana.pdf |
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