Studying Politics and Religion: How to Distinguish Religious Politics, Civil Religion, Political Religion, and Political Theology
The study of politics and religion is today fragmented to a degree that you can hardly refer to it as one academic field anymore. This article lists four fundamentally different approaches to the study of politics and religion: political religion; religious politics; civil religion; and finally, pol...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2013
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2013, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 428-463 |
Further subjects: | B
religious politics
civil religion
political religion
political theology
secularism
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Summary: | The study of politics and religion is today fragmented to a degree that you can hardly refer to it as one academic field anymore. This article lists four fundamentally different approaches to the study of politics and religion: political religion; religious politics; civil religion; and finally, political theology. The article compares the four approaches on a number of significant parameters: their understanding of what religion is; their critical ambition; to which degree a preliminary distinction between politics and religion is presupposed; and most importantly, how to approach the relationship between religion and politics in an analytical, strategic sense. The ambition with this survey is to support a discussion between the four approaches with a view to reach a more complete understanding of the relationship between politics and religion in all its complexity. |
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ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00604002 |