Is There a Difference Between “Religion” and “Politics”?
Scholars commonly compare and distinguish “religion” and “politics” in their analyses of certain social groups; they often do so in a way that presumes that such terms denote complicated yet still discrete realms that exist in varying degrees of interrelationship. Using the Christian Right as a case...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 442-454 |
| Review of: | Apples and oranges (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018) (Smith, Leslie Dorrough)
Considering comparison (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019) (Smith, Leslie Dorrough) |
| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CG Christianity and Politics ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Christian Right B Comparison B Individualism B Religion B gay marriage B Politics B Oliver Freiberger B Bruce Lincoln |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Scholars commonly compare and distinguish “religion” and “politics” in their analyses of certain social groups; they often do so in a way that presumes that such terms denote complicated yet still discrete realms that exist in varying degrees of interrelationship. Using the Christian Right as a case study, this essay proposes that we can draw from Bruce Lincoln and Oliver Freiberger’s insights regarding the methodological uses of comparison to reconsider how the terms “religion” and “politics” are deployed in our analyses. Rather than view these concepts as mirrors of some objective reality, scholars can create more robust critical perspectives if they treat these terms as insider products—that is, as flexible rhetorical categories modified by group insiders to achieve certain social effects. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Comparison Considered (2020)"
Kritik in "By Way of Response (2020)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341494 |