Religion and Politics, Politics and Religion

An Introduction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4547418
AutoresD H Levine (0000-0002-3857-809X, University of Michigan, autor correspondente)
Ano1979
Volume21
Fascículo1
Páginas5-30
Data de publicação1979-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/165688
OpenAlexW2782605390
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas14

Religion and politics have depended on and influenced one another since the origins of what we know as Latin America. Their relation is both mutual and multifaceted; mutual because religion and politics have evolved together over the years, taking material and symbolic support from one another, and multifaceted because it embraces interinstitutional conflict and accommodation (e.g., the "church-state" relations which dominated earlier scholarship) as well as more subtle and elusive exchanges whereby religious and political orders gave legitimacy and moral authority to one another. In this process, religious notions of hierarchy, authority, and obedience reflected and reinforced the pattern of existing social and political arrangements to such an extent that the two orders often seemed indistinguishable

Hierarchy · Legitimacy · Obedience · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions