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Religion and Politics Under Capitalism: A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology book cover

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Religion and Politics Under Capitalism A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology

By Stefan Arvidsson Copyright 2019
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary religious practice and modern politics is divided between several scholarly disciplines, all embracing different terminologies as well as multiple... Read more

Part I  1 Totalitarianism and political religion  2 Mythic politics and the masses;  Excursion: On comparison  3 Liberalism and capitalist religion  Part II  4 Secular age, idealist scholarship  5 "Everything religion" and the capitalist framework  6 A humanistic view on religion  Part III  7 Basic definitions  8 Relating modern religions and political ideologies

Biography

Stefan Arvidsson is Professor in the Study of Religions at Linnæus University, Sweden. He is the author of several books, including Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science (2006) and The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914 (2017), and editor, together with Jakub Beneš and Anja Kirsch, of Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (2018).

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