POLI 476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: General Order, Clifford Geertz, Desmond Tutu
14 Apr 2016
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Poliical acions, military successes and failures have long been associated with religion. Constanine brought chrisianity into the roman empire ater he claims he had a vision where a. Chrisian god helped him win a major batle. Peter berger sees religion as a force of order, especially social order. Civilisaion acts as a mirror of their divine beliefs. Nomos: meaningful order of society (in this case as created by religion) In the pre-modern world, religion provided meaning, nomos and structure to society. Law was oten religiously oriented and relected religious texts. There was fusing of religion and poliics, but also compeiion between these two spheres. Poliics has more coercive powers, religion more moral legiimacy. 17th-18th century: entanglement between religion and the state culminaing in the peace of. Ended 30 years of war in central europe over territory, religion, etc. It was principally a war of catholics vs. protestants, lutherans and calvinists.
