Religion and politics / / edited by Patrick Michel, Enzo Pace.

• Superior document: Annual review of the sociology of religion, v. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Pace, Enzo.; Michel, Patrick.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Annual review of the sociology of religion ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 128327082X; 9786613270825; 9004216413
• ISSN: 1877-5233
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Patrick Michel, Enzo Pace.

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.