TY - JOUR

T1 - Same rights for everybody?

T2 - On secularism, modest establishment and same-sex marriage

AU - Dabelsteen, Hans B.

N1 - Published online before print September 15, 2014

PY - 2014/9/15

Y1 - 2014/9/15

N2 - This article seeks to map the current discussion of secularism and propose two conceptual expansions. The first is to include modest establishment in a framework of secularism defendable by political liberalism, and the second is to consider secularism in close connection to a theory of peoplehood. This understanding is illustrated by a reconstruction of Danish secularism and a recent case of Danish legislation allowing same-sex church marriage. Here, attention will be given to how questions of basic liberal principles in relation to religion spilled over into questions of peoplehood.

AB - This article seeks to map the current discussion of secularism and propose two conceptual expansions. The first is to include modest establishment in a framework of secularism defendable by political liberalism, and the second is to consider secularism in close connection to a theory of peoplehood. This understanding is illustrated by a reconstruction of Danish secularism and a recent case of Danish legislation allowing same-sex church marriage. Here, attention will be given to how questions of basic liberal principles in relation to religion spilled over into questions of peoplehood.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Secularism

KW - Denmark

KW - same-sex marriage

KW - equality

KW - modest establishmen

KW - state and church

KW - peoplehood

KW - political identity

U2 - 10.1177/1468796814551099

DO - 10.1177/1468796814551099

M3 - Journal article

VL - 15

SP - 28

EP - 52

JO - Ethnicities

JF - Ethnicities

SN - 1468-7968

IS - 1

ER -