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.

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.

Table of Contents

pt. 1. The recomposition of the relations between religion and politics, and the new features of the global religious system -- pt. 2. Religion between private and public, state and civil society -- pt. 3. Religion and politics between communitarianism and policy of identity.