The political dimensions of religion

Author(s)

• Arjomand, Said Amir

Bibliographic Information

The political dimensions of religion

edited by Said Amir Arjomand

（SUNY series in Near Eastern studies）

State University of New York Press, c1993

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume explores the relationship between religion and politics. It brings a varied sample of richly detailed comparative and case studies together with a set of analytical paradigms in an integrated framework. It is a major statement on a timely subject, and a plea for the acknowledgment of normative pluralism as firmly rooted in the history of religion. The editor shows that the fact of political diversity in the history of world religions compels the acceptance of pluralism as a normative principle.

Table of Contents

Contributors Preface Introduction Part I. Religion and the Institution of Order 1. Religion and the Civilizational Dimensions of Politics S. N. Eisenstadt 2. Religion and the Diversity of Normative Orders Said Amir Arjomand 3. Religion and Constitutionalism in Western History and in Modern Iran and Pakistan Said Amir Arjomand 4. Church, State, Nation, and Civil Society in Spain and Poland José Casanova Part II. Utopian Religious Beliefs and Political Action 5. Lost Primeval Bliss as Re-volutionary Expectation: Millennialism of Crisis In Peru and the Philippines Manuel Sarkisyanz 6. Note on the Shining Path and Modernized Millennialism in Peru Javier Diaz-Albertini 7. Antinomian Conduct at the Millennium: Metaphorical Conceptions of Time in Social Science and Social Life Karen E. Fields 8. Culture and Politics in Vietnamese Caodaism Manuel Sarkisyanz 9. Millennial Beliefs, Hierocratic Authority, and Revolution in Shi'ite Iran Said Amir Arjomand Part III. Normative Contentions and Current Issues 10. Fundamentalism and the Political Mobilization of Women Martin Riesebrodt 11. An American Paradox: The Place of Religion in an Ambiguous Polity Steven M. Tipton Index

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• NCID: BA20939116
• ISBN:
  • 0791415570
  • 0791415589
• LCCN: 92028757
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 293 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL65.P7
  • DC20 : 291.1/77
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religion and politics
  • LCSH : Religion and state
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00636097