ENGLISH

Does Religion Make a Difference?

By Hasenclever Andreas , Rittberge Volker.

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english
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332 kB (340023 bytes)
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twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Конфликтология;Политическая конфликтология

Description

As observed by many scholars, a renaissance of religious traditions is taking place virtually all over the globe.1 Contrary to once widespread expectations that religion would gradually disappear as a political force in modernising societies, religious communities have been getting stronger in most nations over the last two decades or so. Their leaders put forward grievances about discrimination, raise claims as to how state and society should be organised, and mobilise the faithful into action. Social institutions such as schools, charities and hospitals are run in the name of their respective religious denominations. In many Muslim countries, there are calls for the introduction of the sharia as public law. In India, Hindu nationalists attempt to establish their creed as the state privileged religion. In the US the ‘Christian Right’ tries to capture the state for the dissemination and implementation of the eternal truth as they understand it.

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