English to Serbian Social Sciences Religion Moderate Secularism, Religion as Identity and Respect for Religion

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Accommodative or moderate secularism, no less than liberal and republican secularism, can be justified in liberal, egalitarian, democratic terms, and in relation to a conception of citizenship. Yet it has developed an historical practice in which, explicitly or implicitly, organised religion is treated as a potential public good or national resource (not just a private benefit), which the state can in some circumstances assist to realise. This can take the form of an input into a legislative forum, such as the House of Lords, on moral and welfare issues, but also to being social partners to the state in the delivery of education, health and care services; building social capital; and churches belonging to ‘the people’. So even those who do not attend them, or even sign up to their doctrines, feel they have a right to use them for weddings and funerals.