Laicism and cooperation as the mainstays of the Spanish model: an attempt at a comprehensive interpretation (and a new platform for consensus)

Authors

  • Gustavo Suárez Pertierra

Keywords:

Secularism, cooperation, agreements of cooperation with churches and religions

Abstract

The Spanish constitutional model for dealing with the question of religion is a complex system based on the two classic elements of secularism: separation of Church and State and neutrality of the public administration towards ideological and religious beliefs. Cooperation with churches and religions, enshrined in the Constitution, is considered in the Spanish system to be at the core of secularism: it is based on secularism and it is secularism itself that sets the forms and limits of cooperation. Constitutional cooperation is open to any type of procedure and not only to agreements, in such a way that accords between the State and the various churches and religions are faced by a change in nature in accordance with the essential principles of constitutional secularism.

Issue

Section

STUDIES