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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 2: Religion and Politics (Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion)

By Patrick Michel , Enzo Pace (editors)

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2011
ISBN
900420928X, 9789004209282
Google Books ID
hu6FZwEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1606068 bytes)
Series
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 2
Pages
350\350
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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