The Moth and the Flame

Religion and Power in Comparative Blur

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2590959
AutoresN J Demerath (University of Massachusetts Amherst, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen55
Número2
Páginas105
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1069-4404 • E-ISSN: 1759-8818
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3711852
OpenAlexW2014706238
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

This essay describes a major shift that occurred in religion's perceived political prominence, especially following key events in 1979. It then describes a current project to investigate religion, politics, and the state in more than a dozen countries around the globe. But the article principally focuses on a somewhat serendipitous aspect of the project; namely, ways in which standard concepts in American sociology of religion take different meanings and connotations in other countries. Five examples involve religious identity, fundamentalism, church-state relations, civil religion, and secularization and secularity. In each case, the changes required abroad are also salutary for analysis at home

Aesthetics · Dozen · Fundamentalism · Globe · Identity politics · Political science · Politics · Secular state · Secularism · Secularity · Secularization · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies