POLI 227 Chapter 3: Religion and Politics
17 Apr 2012
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Chapter 3: religion and politics. Trend of the modernizing states moving away from religion. Early modernization theorists viewed organized religion as an impediment to political and economic development. Since the 1970"s, the third world has seen a religious resurgence. The meeting of church and state. Iran: shi"a clergy: taliban in afghanistan. Great religions of the 3rd world. Catholicism: the only major religion to penetrate the industrial and the third world. Hinduism: dominant in india and nepal. Buddhism: east and southeast asia. Islam: asia, middle east, africa. None of the third world religions are monolithic. Sunni muslims are much more dominate than shi"ite muslims. Structural and theological bases of church state relations. Hinduism and buddhism: asia"s organic religions, buddhism rejects the caste system, less theologically inclined to political organization. Revivalism the desire to revive it"s true faith. Al qaeda are primarily motivated by nationalist opposition to western intervention in the region, not religion. Islamists view western culture as insidious.
