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Religion and politics / edited by Patrick Michel, Enzo Pace.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Annual review of the sociology of religion ; v. 2.
- Annual review of the sociology of religion, 1877-5233 ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and politics.
- Religion and sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden [The Netherlands] : Brill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the past thirty years, religion has increasingly played a relevant role, both on a national level and in international affairs. The attempt made by politicians to reframe the policy of social cohesion in a neo-nationalist light (one land, one language, one religion = one political community), demising any kind of multiculturalism, facilitating instead a return to assimilation shaped by fear of the other (culture, religion, language, and so on), is very often associated with a restoration of the primacy of religious discourse in the public sphere. It is not just a return of religion in the public sphere, but the exploitation of religion by politics to reconstruct a social cohesion in the absence of ideological resources.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The recomposition of the relations between religion and politics, and the new features of the global religious system
- pt. 2. Religion between private and public, state and civil society
- pt. 3. Religion and politics between communitarianism and policy of identity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-27082-X
- 9786613270825
- 90-04-21641-3
- OCLC:
- 751963504
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004209282.i-335 DOI
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