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Religious Change, Political Incentives, and Explaining Religious-Secular Relations in the United States and the Philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2017

David T. Buckley  and
Clyde Wilcox
David T. Buckley*
Affiliation:
University of Louisville
Clyde Wilcox*
Affiliation:
Georgetown University
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: David T. Buckley, University of Louisville. Department of Political Science, Ford Hall, Room 205, Louisville, KY 40292. E-mail: david.buckley@louisville.edu; or to: Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University, Department of Government, Intercultural Center, 37th and O Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20057. E-mail: wilcoxc@georgetown.edu.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: David T. Buckley, University of Louisville. Department of Political Science, Ford Hall, Room 205, Louisville, KY 40292. E-mail: david.buckley@louisville.edu; or to: Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University, Department of Government, Intercultural Center, 37th and O Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20057. E-mail: wilcoxc@georgetown.edu.
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Abstract

The interactions between religious and secular elites differ across societies, and those interactions may evolve differently even in the face of similarly controversial issues. What explains variation in relations between religious and secular elites in comparative settings? We highlight the links between religious change, political incentives, and the level of conflict or cooperation between religious and secular actors in public life. We illustrate distinct patterns of religious-secular relations with a paired comparison of two democracies with an intertwined history: the United States and the Philippines. In the United States, religious-secular relations have becoming increasingly conflictual as political incentives have changed in response to religious change. In the Philippines, in contrast, religious and secular actors maintain cooperative ties in part because relative religious stability has diminished political incentives to stoke religious-secular tensions.

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Politics and Religion , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 543 - 566
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Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2017 

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Footnotes

The authors thank participants at the Democracy, Religion, and Governance Symposium at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University for their organization and constructive feedback on an earlier draft of this project, and to the editors and anonymous reviews at Politics and Religion for helpful feedback on the initial submission. David Buckley thanks the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville for financial support for research related to this project.

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