A Secular State? Reason, Religion, and the Australian Polity 1788-1945

世俗国家？

• 批准号: DP150100444
• 负责人: Dr Ian Tregenza
• 金额: $ 14.04万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150100444
• 关键词: Secular; State; Reason; Religion; Australian

What does it mean to say that Australia is a secular state? How did that self-conception develop and how has the meaning of 'secular' changed over the course of the nation's history? These are the fundamental questions that shape this study of the inter-relationship of the secular and religion within the Australian polity from 1788 to the end of World War II. The project will be illuminated by the increasingly sophisticated literature on secularisation and the international comparisons it aims to facilitate. The outcome is expected to be a historically informed explanation of distinctively Australian attitudes to secularity, which may provide the basis for a more informed national debate over issues of religion and citizenship.

澳大利亚是一个世俗国家，这意味着什么？这种自我概念是如何发展的？在这个国家的历史进程中，“世俗”的含义是如何变化的？这些都是基本的问题，塑造了从1788年到第二次世界大战结束的澳大利亚政体的世俗和宗教的相互关系的研究。这个项目将被日益复杂的世俗化文献和它旨在促进的国际比较所照亮。其结果预计将是一个历史上知情的解释独特的澳大利亚世俗的态度，这可能会提供一个更明智的宗教和公民身份问题的全国性辩论的基础。