We God's People

Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations

Jocelyne Cesari (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42929-0 (ISBN)

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The exportation of the nation-state worldwide went hand-in-hand with the diffusion of the western concept of religion. This dual dissemination of nation-state and religion has reshaped ideas, theologies, institutions which are at the core of the politicization of religion in countries as different as Syria, Turkey, India, China, and Russia.

Cesari argues that both religious and national communities are defined by the three Bs: belief, behaviour and belonging. By focusing on the ways in which these three Bs intersect, overlap or clash, she identifies the patterns of the politicization of religion, and vice versa, in any given context. Her approach has four advantages: firstly, it combines an exploration of institutional and ideational changes across time, which are usually separated by disciplinary boundaries. Secondly, it illustrates the heuristic value of combining qualitative and quantitative methods by statistically testing the validity of the patterns identified in the qualitative historical phase of the research. Thirdly, it avoids reducing religion to beliefs by investigating the significance of the institution-ideas connections, and fourthly, it broadens the political approach beyond state-religion relations to take into account actions and ideas conveyed in other arenas such as education, welfare, and culture.

Jocelyne Cesari Holds the Chair of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham, UK, is Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs and the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding at Harvard Divinity School (2018-2021). Her other books include: What is Political Islam? (2018) (special mention of the religion and international section of the International Studies Association), and The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State (Cambridge, 2014).

Introduction; 1. Framing the question; 2. State, Islam, Nation, and Patriotism: never ending tensions; 3. The nexus of Secularism and Communalism or Hinduism as a political project; 4. Religion and the transcendent state in China; 5. Orthodoxy: between nation and empire; 6. Patterns of religion-politics interactions; Conclusion; Appendix I; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-108-42929-7 / 1108429297
ISBN-13	978-1-108-42929-0 / 9781108429290
Zustand	Neuware