GHU Logo
The Great Heights University Library
Academic discovery, digital access, and research support

Annual review of the sociology of religion. Volume 2, Religion and politics /

Annual review of the sociology of religion. Volume 2, Religion and politics / edited by Patrick Michel and Enzo Pace. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles . - Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 2. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004223110. .

Preliminary Material / Religious Pluralization And Intimations Of A Post-Westphalian Condition In A Global Society / Resurgent Religion In Politics: The Martyr, The Convert And The Black Knight Of Apocalypse / Religious, Political And Global / Complicating The “Clash Of Civilizations”: Gender And Politics In Contemporary Kuwait / The “Social Integration” Of Religious Groups In Society: A Social Mechanism Approach / Christian Religion In The West: Privatization Or Public Revitalization? / The Cultural Foundations Of Islamist Leadership In Morocco / The Protestant House Church And Its Poverty Of Rights In China / Rethinking The Role Of The Catholic Church In Building Civil Society In Contemporary China: The Case Of Wenzhou Diocese / India: The Politics Of (Re)conversion To Hinduism Of Christian Aboriginals / Religion And Politics: The Italian Case / The Reciprocal Instrumentalization Of Religion And Politics In Brazil / The Reinvention Of Cuban Santería And The Politics Of Identity / A Secular Cancellation Of The Secularist Truce: Religion And Political Legitimation In Australia / The Concept Of Implicit Religion: What, When, How, And Why? / List Of Contributors / Index / P. Michel and E. Pace -- Peter Beyer -- Enzo Pace -- Patrick Michel -- Alessandra L. González and Lubna Al-Kazi -- Jörg Stolz -- Johan Roeland , Peter Achterberg , Dick Houtman , Stef Aupers , Willem De Koster , Peter Mascini and Jeroen Van Der Waal -- Mohammed Maarouf -- Zhaohui Hong -- Shun-Hing Chan -- Christophe Jaffrelot -- Franco Garelli -- Ricardo Mariano and Ari Pedro Oro -- Elena Zapponi -- Marion Maddox -- Edward Bailey -- P. Michel and E. Pace -- P. Michel and E. Pace.

Available to subscribing member institutions only.

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.

9789004216419

10.1163/ej.9789004209282.i-335 DOI


Religion and politics.
Religion and sociology.

BL65.P7 / A56 2011

248.83