The events that took place in Turkey during the summer of 2007 leadus to pose many questions as to whether liberal democracy is somethingmore than the last product of advertised consumption for a betterspreading of occidentalization around the world following the endof the colonial era.One of the problems we face is being able to discern what religionmeans in the relations among states according to the westfalian premise,that is to say, the assertion that religion does not exist in internationalrelations. Modernity has separated religious doctrines from traditionsand this separation brought about a dilemma for non-westernstates since they were deprived of their religion when faced with thetask of building their own identity which had in turn been deeply rootedin religion. The process of secularization, i.e. separation of the conceptsof the political community from those of the religious community,has caused an important fracture within the societies that came lastto adhere to the modernizing process that has been imposed -directlyor indirectly- by Europe since the XVI century.