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5Liberal Neutrality and State Support for ReligionImprint: Springer. 2016.This book focuses on the financing of religions, examining some European church-state models, using a philosophical methodology. The work defends autonomy-based liberalism and elaborates how this liberalism can meet the requirements of liberal neutrality. The chapters also explore religious education and the financing of institutionalized religion. This volume collates the work of top scholars in the field. Starting from the idea that autonomy-based liberalism is an adequate framework for the re…Read more
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15Overheidssteun voor religie: antiperfectionisme of perfectionisme?Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 44 (1): 62-82. 2015.
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8Omgaan met religie en religieuze diversiteit in een geseculariseerde samenlevingRes Publica 52 (2): 231-245. 2010.
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Een neutrale overheid: what's in a name? Een discussiebijdrageFilosofie En Praktijk 32 (4): 69. 2011.
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31Barry and Kukathas as Inspiring Sources for a Fair Church-State System in BelgiumJournal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 10 (28): 3-20. 2011.Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In this article, we will look at the political philosophical theories of Brian Barry ( Culture and Equality , 2001) and Chandran Kukathas ( The Liberal Archipelago , 2003) and see which consequences both theories have for the Belgian model of church and state. For both authors, the liberal state should be neutral toward religion but they interpret this neutrality in a different way. According to Kukathas, neutrality implies a hands-off policy…Read more
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14Hoe neutraal is kerkfinanciering?: kritische analyse van het Belgische erkennings- en ondersteuningsbeleidNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 41 (1): 12-27. 2012.In this article, the authors explore how active state support for religions and worldviews could be in accordance with the principle of liberal neutrality. They focus on the Belgian church-state policy because this policy is characterised by an explicit and extended form of active support for recognised worldviews. If this policy is in accordance with liberal neutrality, some other, weaker forms of state support for religions and worldviews may also be in accordance with this neutrality principl…Read more
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8Religious freedom and State–Church-relations in Europe and the USA [Die Religionsfreiheit und das Staat-Kirche-Verhältnis in Europa und den USA]International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 74 (3): 255-256. 2013.
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