Religion and politics in processes of modernisation
The Cold War is over. Instead, in international politics, oppositions partly conditioned by religious‐cultural factors have become more pronounced. Even the expectation that modernisation marginalises religion is falsified by the fact of actually existing societies which combine both. The most consp...
| Published in: | Totalitarian movements and political religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2005
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Totalitarian movements and political religions
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| Summary: | The Cold War is over. Instead, in international politics, oppositions partly conditioned by religious‐cultural factors have become more pronounced. Even the expectation that modernisation marginalises religion is falsified by the fact of actually existing societies which combine both. The most conspicuous example of such a society is the United States. The political significance of this is that the US has proved more competent in handling the latest Balkan crisis than the ‘old’ European countries under the umbrella of the European Union. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-9647 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Totalitarian movements and political religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14690760500099812 |