The Moth and the Flame: Religion and Power in Comparative Blur
This essay describes a major shift that occurred in religion's perceived political prominence, especially following key events in 1979. It then describes a current project to investigate religion, politics, and the state in more than a dozen countries around the globe. But the article principal...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
1994
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1994, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 105-117 |
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| Summary: | This essay describes a major shift that occurred in religion's perceived political prominence, especially following key events in 1979. It then describes a current project to investigate religion, politics, and the state in more than a dozen countries around the globe. But the article principally focuses on a somewhat serendipitous aspect of the project; namely, ways in which standard concepts in American sociology of religion take different meanings and connotations in other countries. Five examples involve religious identity, fundamentalism, church-state relations, civil religion, and secularization and secularity. In each case, the changes required abroad are also salutary for analysis at home. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711852 |