POLSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Economic Security, Geopolitics, Moral Authority

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 140
• Professor: Gallagher

Document Summary

Can make severe demands on individual behavior. Can weaken or strengthen nation-states and national identity. Benefits of belief can be material and worldly or immaterial and sacred. Has withstood secularization better than many other collective identities, such as. Most powerful when combined with ethnic/national identity (reinforcing cleavages) ethnicity, dialect/language. Religion and politics: policy effects to the state to achieve their preferred policy preferences goals. Religious organizations with strong moral authority can use informal institutional access. Religious organizations can also partner with partisan organizations to achieve policy. Influence of religion varies widely, even among countries with similar characteristics, such as italy vs. ireland, poland vs. croatia. Modernization and secularization become more concerned over self-expression over survival. Modernization theory predicts that as economic development occurs, individuals will. This, in turn, leads to the decline of religious authority and organized religious practice. Some empirical evidence for this, especially in western europe and post-communist.