The East German Association of Freethinkers (1988–1991), “Last Ideological Offensive” and Ultimate Troublemaker to the Political System

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Seculars Crafting their Lives in Different Frameworks from the Age of Revolution to the Present Day 1
5. Part I
6. Duelling with the Devil you Know. Secularism in Victorian England and its Relationship to the State 21
7. Clashes, Competition and Common Goals: Italian Secularisms and the Liberal State 39
8. The Atheist and the Court. The Failed Secularisation of the Judicial Oath in Nineteenth-Century Belgium 63
9. Atheism in Judicial Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of the US and the Italian Constitutional Scenario 87
10. Part II
11. Adam and Eve or Eva and Eve: Gay Rights and Religious/Non-Religious Public Definitions of Marriage in Ghana 109
12. The Price of Secularist Activism: Organised Unbelief before the State in Brazil 129
13. Do Mexicans Support a Secular Regime? Types of Attitudes Towards Secularism Policies in Four Religious Groups 147
14. The Religiosity of the US Nonprofit Sector and its Impact on Secular Women 167
15. State (Non)Secularism and Religious Ambivalence in the Middle East 183
16. Non-Religious Perceptions of Religion and Church-State Relations in Europe: A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study in Flanders, Greece and Norway 209
17. Part III
18. Let’s Talk about Money. Questions and Challenges Around the Public Funding of Humanist Organisations 229
19. Accomodationism as a Battlefield? The Local ‘Recognition’ and Funding Secular Humanists in Flanders in the 1970s 267
20. Moral and Religious Counselling in French-Speaking Belgium since the 1970s. The Quest for Legal Recognition and Dignity 287
21. Disentanglement of Church and State: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 301
22. The Ligue de l’Enseignement and the French State since 1950: Between Influence and Dissonance 321
23. Part IV
24. Patterns of Decline in German Organised Freethought in the Twentieth Century 339
25. The East German Association of Freethinkers (1988–1991), “Last Ideological Offensive” and Ultimate Troublemaker to the Political System 357
26. Organised Non-Religion and the State in Contemporary Germany: Religion- Related Incorporation and Inner Conflicts 373
27. Contributors 389
28. Index 393