Worldly politics and divine institutions: Contemporary entanglements of faith and government

Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions explores the entanglement of religion and government in a comparative, case-based analysis of several major court cases from the European Court of Human Rights, the US Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of the UK. The entanglement of religion and state is prevalent in many democratic countries. However, it is understudied. Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions aims to fill this blind spot. Categories and cases such as discrimination conducted by governmentally funded religious associations and the governmental endorsement of religious symbols in public spaces create hybrid institutions that are difficult to analyze, compare, and manage. The structuring of an adequate, novel framework of analysis and comparison is one core goal of Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions.