The religious and the political a comparative sociology of religion

"Religion and politics are two fundamental dimensions of human society, and yet they are often at loggerheads. Religion appears to belong to a different realm, signifying matters that are permanent and enduring, residing beyond the everyday. Politics appears to involve the secular struggle for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Turner, Bryan S. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39746926*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fear of diversity: the origin of politics
  • Charisma and church-state relations
  • City, nation, and globe: the rise of the church and the citizen
  • Religion and kingship: liturgies and royal rituals
  • Religion and reproduction: marriage and family
  • Conversion and the state
  • Religion, state, and legitimacy: three dimensions of authority
  • Buddhism and the political: the sangha and the state
  • Confucianism and state ideology: China
  • Religion, state, and Japanese exceptionalism: nihonjinron
  • State and Turkish secularism: the case of the Diyanet / with Berna Zengin Arslan
  • Popular religion and popular democracy
  • The state and freedom of religion.