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There can be no precise and agreed definition of religion. The origin of the word is of little help, for it descends from the Latin religiare, to bind, which suggests the broadest possible ...

Personality, Politics, and Religion

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Amanda Friesen

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
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Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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...of politics—whether it be political parties or group interests—is more like religion than personality and often feeds off of a charismatic leader. The influence of the cult of personality parallels between politicians and pastors, and the supporting structures of institutional religion and political systems, formalize this influence. Personality is often understood as the medium through which individuals express and validate their religious and political leanings. Religious and political frameworks necessitate beliefs about the world, human nature, and...

Communication Dynamics in Religion and Politics

Communication Dynamics in Religion and Politics   Reference library

Paul A. Djupe and Brian R. Calfano

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
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Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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8,930 words

...with a mission: Religion, gender, and the politics of women clergy . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Owens, M. L. (2007). God and government in the ghetto: The politics of church-state collaboration in Black America . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Patrikios, S. (2008). American Republican religion? Disentangling the causal link between religion and politics in the US. Political Behavior , 30 , 367–389. Patrikios, S. (2013). Self-stereotyping as “Evangelical Republican”: An empirical test. Politics and Religion , 6 , 800–822. ...

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Lincoln Allison

A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations (4 ed.)

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2018
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Social sciences, Politics
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668 words

...Christian, and Islamic religions, the religious concern is concentrated onto a single God who is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, the creator of the universe. Religion is therefore normally of huge ethical significance. What people ought to do is derivable from the existence, nature, and will of God. It would be difficult to be seriously religious in any sense without that religion determining some of one’s political beliefs. Indeed, the most natural relation between religion and politics is one in which the most important political questions have...

Religion and Politics

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Ninian Smart

The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics

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2012
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Social sciences, Politics
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3,568 words

... and Politics Religion relates to politics in a number of ways. First, it interacts with the nation-state, which is now the standard political arrangement throughout the global community. Second, many religions are powerful worldwide forces and, thus, affect international arrangements. Third, religious conflicts can intensify divisions within and between states. Fourth, religious values are often invoked to justify and legitimize political action and political arrangements, and this links in with ways in which it affects voting behavior and other...

Religion and Politics

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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)

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2004
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Social sciences, Politics
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3,543 words

... and Politics . Religion relates to politics in a number of ways. First, it interacts with the nation-state, which is now the standard political arrangement throughout the global community. Second, many religions are powerful worldwide forces and thus affect international arrangements. Third, religious conflicts can intensify divisions within and between states. Fourth, religious values are often invoked to justify and legitimize political action and political arrangements, and this links in with ways in which it affects voting behavior and other...

Religion and Politics

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Gordon C. Thomasson

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

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2008
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History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
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...and secular humanism, and in the Enlightenment would coalesce politically in classical eighteenth-century liberalism and theologically in deism. Carried, at times inadvertently, by European and American expansion, colonialism, and education around the globe, these philosophical views and their successors would change the relationships between the world's faith traditions and the political states in which they were found, as reflected, for example, in what has been called “American civil religionand its often troubled relationships with foreign and...

Religion and politics

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Oxford Companion to Australian Politics

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Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
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3,280 words

... and politics Although habituated to politics as a secular activity, political science is now confronted by an international scene dominated by terrorists openly professing religious conviction. Through its secular lenses, the academy has viewed the historical connections between religion and politics but dimly. Yet the association has been protracted and intimate. The world's first Democracy for example was wreathed in religious observance and scruple. Indeed, for the Athenians, religious, political, and social life was continuous. In a hostile stand...

Religion and Politics

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Ray Suarez

The Oxford Companion to American Politics

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Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics, Regional and Area Studies
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6,497 words

... and Politics The story of American politics and its intertwined relationship with American religion goes back to the earliest days of the new nation, and the roots of this sometimes conflicted, sometimes complementary relationship stretch back further still, to the beginning of European settlement. Debates about the role of religious faith in politics began with the new Republic, and courts, governments, and the American way of political campaigns have frequently veered between frank expression of religious identity and the assertion of a religiously...

Experimentation in the Study of Religion and Politics

Experimentation in the Study of Religion and Politics   Reference library

Paul A. Djupe and Amy Erica Smith

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
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Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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10,394 words
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...Paul Djupe and Angelia Wilson filled an entire issue of Politics and Religion with experimental work in 2016 (issue 3). Figure 1. Publication dates of experimental studies in religion and politics. Source : Data and figure from authors. The data are limited to studies reviewed in this article. A perfunctory examination of these studies reveals tremendous diversity in the ways religion and politics are studied in experimental environments. How can this variety be categorized and understood? In essence, experiments in religion and politics model a...

Party Politics and Religion in Northern Ireland

Party Politics and Religion in Northern Ireland   Reference library

Neil Matthews

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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Current Version:
2020
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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5,774 words

... Religion, civil society and peace in Northern Ireland . Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. Bruce, S. (1986). God save Ulster! The religion and politics of Paisleyism . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Bruce, S. (1994). The edge of the union: The Ulster loyalist political vision . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Bruce, S. (2007). Paisley: Religion and politics in Northern Ireland . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Bruce, S. (2012). Religion and violence in Northern Ireland. In S. Bruce (Ed.), Politics and religion in the...

Civil Strife, Politics, and Religion in Algeria

Civil Strife, Politics, and Religion in Algeria   Reference library

Yahia H. Zoubir

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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15,859 words

...Strife, Politics, and Religion in Algeria Introduction The genealogy of the Islamist phenomenon in Algeria dates back to the country’s colonial history, which largely explains why politics and religion are intertwined in the country today. Islam in Algeria is not simply the religion of 99% of the population (CIA World Factbook 2018 ). More than in any other Middle Eastern or North African society, this religion constitutes the central foundation of identity and culture. Islamic beliefs and practices regulate social behavior and largely govern social...

Political Contempt and Religion

Political Contempt and Religion   Reference library

Nathan C. Walker

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
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Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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...a fundamental human right, and government and political agencies do not privilege any one religion over another. Governments at this stage have low levels of legal restrictions on religion and experience low levels of social hostilities and violence toward religion ( Grim, 2012 ; Pew, 2014a , 2014b ). Societies that merely tolerate religion, which are given the grade of B minus (meaning, needs improvement), begin to see increases in government regulation of religion and increases in social hostilities. As those regulations and hostilities increase, a...

The Political Opportunity Structure and Religion

The Political Opportunity Structure and Religion   Reference library

Luis Felipe Mantilla

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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9,326 words

... A world survey of religion and the state . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Fox, J. (2011). Separation of religion and state and secularism in theory and in practice. Religion, State and Society , 39 (4), 384–401. Fox, J. (2013). An introduction to religion and politics: Theory and practice . New York, NY: Routledge. Fox, J. (2015). Political secularism, religion, and the state: A time series analysis of worldwide data. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Fox, J. (2016). The unfree exercise of religion: A world survey of...

Political Participation and Religion: An Overview

Political Participation and Religion: An Overview   Reference library

Jacob R. Neiheisel

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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9,161 words

... The bully pulpit: The politics of Protestant clergy . Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. Hale, C. W. (2015). Religious institutions and civic engagement: A test of religion’s impact on political activism in Mexico. Comparative Politics , 47 (2), 211–230. Hale, C. W. (2018). Religious institutions and collective action: The Catholic Church and political activism in indigenous Chiapas and Yucatan. Politics and Religion , 11 (1), 27–54. Harris, F. C. (2001). Something within: Religion in African-American political activism . New York, NY:...

Religion and Political Conflict: “No Religious Affiliation” in the United States

Religion and Political Conflict: “No Religious Affiliation” in the United States   Reference library

Kristi Winters

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion

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2020
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Social sciences, Politics, Religion
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7,166 words

...a “political backlash” to the American religious right. The authors cite Hout and Fischer ( 2002 ) and Putnam, Campbell, and Garrett ( 2010 ) , who theorized religiously conservative activism (the Religious Right) in the 1970s through 1990s against legal abortion and marriage equality was perceived by people—and young adults in particular—as alienating and judgmental. Their negative reactions, according to this theory, pushed some people away from associating with religions. A second theory, the effect of delays in marriage, attempts to link the social and...

Religion and Politics

Religion and Politics  

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There can be no precise and agreed definition of religion. The origin of the word is of little help, for it descends from the Latin religiare, to bind, which suggests the broadest possible boundaries ...
On the Future of Women and Politics in the Arab World

On the Future of Women and Politics in the Arab World   Reference library

Heba Raouf Ezzat

Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2022
Subject:
Religion
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5,961 words
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Oxford University Press

...the importance of the political participation of women and celebrated their rising presence in official positions. It also stressed the role of religion in establishing a society of knowledge and liberty. These statements should fit into a new paradigm that would re-establish the connection between culture, religion and human rights/women's rights discourse and activism in the region. Finally we have to stress the link between the empowerment of women and larger ambitions of change such as security, peace, stability, accountability and equal citizenship. Not...

Tolerance and Governance: A Discourse on Religion and Democracy

Tolerance and Governance: A Discourse on Religion and Democracy   Reference library

Soroush Abdolkarim

Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2022
Subject:
Religion
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3,536 words
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Oxford University Press

...wisdom; in religious society, it is left to religion. E. In a religious society, it is not religion per se that arbitrates, but some understanding of religion which is, in turn, changing, rational, and in harmony with the consensual and accepted extrareligious criteria. F. Religious society is the supporter, sponsor, source, and succor of the religious politics. Without a religious society, the religious democratic government would be inconceivable. The above synopsis provides a valid starting point and a correct formu-lation of—if not an actual...

An Islamic Response to Imperialism

An Islamic Response to Imperialism   Reference library

Sayyid Jamāl and Al-Dīn Al-Afghānī

Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)

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2022
Subject:
Religion
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1,537 words
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Oxford University Press

...in the belief that they are safeguarding the Islamic religion are really the enemies of that religion. The Islamic religion is the closest of religions to science and knowledge, and there is no incompatibility between science and knowledge and the foundation of the Islamic faith. . . . From An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Political and Religious Writings of Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī , trans. and ed. Nikki R. Keddie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), pp. 56, 87, 102–7. Sayyid Jamāl Al-Dīn Al-Afghānī ...

The Caliphate and the Bases of Power

The Caliphate and the Bases of Power   Reference library

‘Alī ‘Abd Al-Rāziq

Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)

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2022
Subject:
Religion
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4,018 words
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Oxford University Press

...of seduction and intimidation, and the pomp of force and power with which they surrounded the institution of the caliphate. This institution has nothing in common with religious functions, no more than the judiciary and the other essential functions and machinery of power and state. All these functions are purely political; they have nothing to do with religion. Religion neither admits nor denies them. It neither orders nor forbids them. It simply leaves them to our free choice so that we will have recourse to rational judgement in their regard and base our...

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