Cesari We God's People

Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-63189-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Cesari argues that both religious and national communities are defined by the three Bs: belief, behaviour and belonging. By focusing on the ways in which these three Bs intersect, overlap or clash, she identifies the patterns of the politicization of religion, and vice versa, in any given context. Her approach has four advantages: firstly, it combines an exploration of institutional and ideational changes across time, which are usually separated by disciplinary boundaries. Secondly, it illustrates the heuristic value of combining qualitative and quantitative methods by statistically testing the validity of the patterns identified in the qualitative historical phase of the research. Thirdly, it avoids reducing religion to beliefs by investigating the significance of the institution-ideas connections, and fourthly, it broadens the political approach beyond state-religion relations to take into account actions and ideas conveyed in other arenas such as education, welfare, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cesari, Jocelyne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Framing the question; 2. State, Islam, Nation, and Patriotism: never ending tensions; 3. The nexus of Secularism and Communalism or Hinduism as a political project; 4. Religion and the transcendent state in China; 5. Orthodoxy: between nation and empire; 6. Patterns of religion-politics interactions; Conclusion; Appendix I; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Cesari, Jocelyne
Jocelyne Cesari Holds the Chair of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham, UK, is Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs and the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding at Harvard Divinity School (2018-2021). Her other books include: What is Political Islam? (2018) (special mention of the religion and international section of the International Studies Association), and The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State (Cambridge, 2014).