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The Religious Transformation of Politics and the Political Transformation of Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Kenneth W. Thompson
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This article deals with the introduction of strongly fundamental views into the theory and practice of politics. It also concerns the transformation of religion from a concern with religious faith to the creation of political religions. Thus forces have been at work in the past two decades seeking to make a religion of politics and transforming religion into a holy political crusade in the form of a particular version of partisan politics.

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Religion and Politics
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , Fall 1988 , pp. 545 - 560
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1988

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Notes

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5. Ibid.

6. Ibid., p. 4.

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9. Ibid., p. 7.

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12. Ibid.