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  2. Religious democracy - Wikipedia

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    Major criticism of religious democracy include criticism from the secular and the legalist points of view. [4] [5] From the secular point of view, religion is a hindrance to democracy as it enforces a set of legal and societal principles. Separation of religion and state is required to protect freedom and ensure equality.

  3. Christian democracy - Wikipedia

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    Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching [3] [4] and neo-scholasticism, [5] [6] [7] as well as the Neo-Calvinist tradition within Christianity; [8] [9] it later gained ground with Lutherans and Pentecostals, [nb 1] among other denominational traditions of Christianity in various parts of the world.

  4. List of Christian democratic parties - Wikipedia

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    The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social teaching and Neo-Calvinist theology. [1] [2] Christian democracy continues to be influential in Europe and Latin America, though in a number of countries its Christian ethos has been diluted by secularisation.

  5. Democracy - Wikipedia

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    Democracy (from Ancient Greek: ... Religious democracy [231] is a form of democracy where the values of a particular religion or state religion are preferred. The ...

  6. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Social democracy is connected with the trade union labour movement and supports collective bargaining rights for workers. Contemporary social democracy advocates freedom from discrimination based on differences of: ability/disability, age, ethnicity, sex, language, religion, and social class. Germany Austria [15] Sweden Norway Denmark Finland

  7. Types of democracy - Wikipedia

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    A direct democracy, or pure democracy, is a type of democracy where the people govern directly, by voting on laws and policies. It requires wide participation of citizens in politics. [ 4 ] Athenian democracy , or classical democracy, refers to a direct democracy developed in ancient times in the Greek city-state of Athens.

  8. Catholic Church and politics - Wikipedia

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    [1] The concept of Catholic democracy was further established by Pope Pius XII in his 1944 Christmas Message, in which he stressed that a "true democracy" must see the people as a "body of citizens" rather than "simply a mass", as the former will make the citizens aware of their fellow rights and duties, while the latter is "an undifferentiated ...

  9. Freedom of religion by country - Wikipedia

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    A Theravada Buddhist monk speaking with a Catholic priest, Thailand. The status of religious freedom around the world varies from country to country. States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, whether they establish a state religion (and the legal implications that this has for both practitioners and non ...