Derecho, Estado y Religión

Editorial

Adrián Hugo Maldonado — 2023-12-21

¿Vive la liberté? Un futuro incierto para la libertad religiosa en Francia

Alexis Artaud de La Ferriere — 2023-12-21

Traducido por Zoe Meier

¿Un paso demasiado lejos?

Alan J. Reinach — 2023-12-21

Traducido por Ruth Abril

¿Libertad para tuitear?

Jason Thacker — 2023-12-21

Traducido por Ruth Abril

Sumarios

Editorial EUAP — 2023-12-21

Editorial UAP

The religious factor in the construction of European identity during the Contemporary Era

Guillermo Vicente y Guerrero — 2023-12-21

Presentación Dossier

Secularism in France: The establishment of the republican school (1879-1905)

Roberto Ceamanos Llorens — 2023-12-21

Secularism in France has a long historical trajectory behind it, which was consolidated
during the Third Republic when, between the end of the 19th century and the
beginning of the 20th century, legislation was passed to achieve the separation between
the State and the Catholic Church. The formation of a solid and widespread
secular school is one of the main objectives of this modernization process. The legislation
and the republican budgets will focus on strengthening a prepared teaching
staff, renewing pedagogy and introducing science and republican principles to become
public schools into a space for the formation of citizens.

Conflicts regarding religious freedom in Spain: From the Restoration to the Second Spanish Republic

María Pilar Salomón Chéliz — 2023-12-21

In Spain, since the Six-year Revolutionary period (1868-1873), the conflict over religious
freedom and other secularising measures developed in the form of a culture war
between those in favour of secularising the State and/or society, mainly Republicans, and the defenders of confessionalism, who tried to encourage the mobilisation of Catholics to support their positions. The conflict between the two contenders took shape mainly in the first decade of the 20th century and in the years of the Second Republic. At the beginning of the 20th century, the crisis of the Restoration system opened a window of opportunity for the Republicans to mobilise supporters of secularism and anticlericalism. Meanwhile, liberals such as José Canalejas tried to advance the secularisation of the State when they took office in order to widen the social bases of the monarchical regime. In the 1930s, the Republicans introduced freedom of religion and the separation of Church and State, along with the secularisation measures that had been called for decades. This article deals with the most important manifestations of the conflict over religious freedom from the Restoration to the Second Republic and the socio-political sectors that played a leading role in them.

For the welfare of the Nation: Anti-Judaism and national identity in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the Early Contemporary Era

Guillermo Vicente y Guerrero — 2023-12-21

In Northern Europe, the search for new identities on which to build the new national
states found a natural solution in the form of religion. A kind of “confessional nationalism”
was being articulated around Lutheranism in which Catholics and Jews had no place. The Jewish question became such a popular subject of discussion that, in Denmark, King Frederik VI sought to resolve the issue in March 1814 by granting the Jewish community a “Frihedsbrevet” (Freedom Letter). In Sweden, where since the previous century a special regulation for Jews called “Judereglementet” had been in force, a parliamentary commission was created in 1815 to solve, without success, the Jewish problem. In both countries, such measures failed to put an end to a public debate that reached notable levels of tension. In Norway, the absence of a prior Jewish community culminated in the radical anti-Jewish solution adopted in May 1814 in the famous article II of its constitutional text, which strictly prohibited the entry of Jews into the Kingdom.

From antijudaism to German antisemitism in the Contemporary Age

Marcos Arjona Herraiz — 2023-12-21

This essay aims to introduce the reader from a panoramic perspective to the ideology
of antisemitism, focusing on the case of contemporary Germany and Anti-judaism in
general. Therefore, it starts with a brief approach to the phenomenon in its medieval
and modern stages. The core of the work is based on a double motivation: first, a brief
review of what we have considered “antisemitism stricto sensu” in Germany in the last
third of the 19th century, and second, a reflection on the persistence of the phenomenon
in our days and the purpose of reversing it, seeking to extend dignity to all humanity.