The religious and the political: a comparative sociology of religion/

Main Author: Turner, Bryan S., 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Cambridge]: Cambridge University Press, [c2013]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Fear of diversity: the origin of politics
  • Charisma and church-state relations
  • City, nation, and globe: the rise of the church and the citizen
  • Religion and kingship: liturgies and royal rituals
  • Religion and reproduction: marriage and family
  • Conversion and the state
  • Religion, state, and legitimacy: three dimensions of authority
  • Buddhism and the political: the sangha and the state
  • Confucianism and state ideology: China
  • Religion, state, and Japanese exceptionalism: nihonjinron
  • State and Turkish secularism: the case of the Diyanet (with Berna Zengin Arslan).