POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Boko Haram, Political Religion, Arab Spring
14 Mar 2016
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Religion conlict an relaionship arise in developing world. Poliical dispute on the status of holy sites. Islamic militancy long track record in domesic and internaional poliics: religious and secular actors in mena region. No obvious reason why poliical islam cannot compete for power democraically. Islamists pursue poliical goals related to religion: growth in hinduism. On the other hand, religion can signiicantly contribute to poliical and social stability: roman catholic church a leading player in the turn to democracy in lain. Religion played an important poliical role in many developing countries during the last years of colonialism. Patchy modernizaion and/or a more generalized atmosphere of crisis are said to underpinned religious resurgence. It is oten claimed that there is a near-global religious revival, but globalizaion may simply be rendering religion in poliics more visible. Church: chrisian insituion, modern understanding deeply rooted in post-reformaion. Confessional church-state relaionship: ecclesiasical authority over secular power, dominant religion of islam.
