Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

Volume 2: Religion and Politics

Edited by Patrick Michel, CNRS, Paris, France, and Enzo Pace, University of Padua, Italy.

Over the past thirty years, religion has increasingly played a relevant role, both on a national level and in international affairs. The attempt made by politicians to reframe the policy of social cohesion in a neo-nationalist light (one land, one language, one religion = one political community), demising any kind of multiculturalism, facilitating instead a return to assimilation shaped by fear of the other (culture, religion, language, and so on), is very often associated with a restoration of the primacy of religious discourse in the public sphere. It is not just a return of religion in the public sphere, but the exploitation of religion by politics to reconstruct a social cohesion in the absence of ideological resources.

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Editor:

Patrick Michel

Enzo Pace

Category:

Social Sciences - Religion & Society

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Ethical issues & debates, Religious issues & debates

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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

ISSN:

1877-5233

ISBN13:

9789004209282

Publication Year:

2011

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Hardback

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xiv, 336 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

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Biographical note

Patrick Michel, sociologist and political scientist, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Former deputy scientific director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at CNRS, he is the director of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs.

Enzo Pace is Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Religion at the University of Padova (Italy), where he chairs the Department of Sociology. He is Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Past-President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR).

Contributors include: Peter Achterberg, Lubna Al-Kazi, Stef Aupers, Edward Bailey, Peter Beyer, Shun-hing Chan, Franco Garelli, Alessandra L. González, Zhaohui George Hong, Dick Houtman, Christophe Jaffrelot, Willem de Koster, Mohammed Maarouf, Marion Maddox, Ricardo Mariano, Peter Mascini, Patrick Michel, Ari Pedro Oro, Enzo Pace, Johan Roeland, Jörg Stolz, Elena Zapponi, and Jeroen van der Waal.

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All those interested in the relationship between religion and politics, sociology of religion, religious studies.

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9789004176034

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