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CHAPTER 5 How do religious beliefs affect politics?
CHAPTER5 How do religious beliefs affectpolitics?Peter MandavilleTHE QUESTIONTHE ROLE OF RELIGION TODAYWhat do we mean when we talk about religion? Scholars have struggled andargued for many years about how to define religion. Some emphasize the ideathat religion is concerned primarily with conceptions of God, divinity and themeaning and order of human existence. Others have tended to emphasize theway religion serves to draw distinctions between sacred(that is, transcendent orother-worldly) forms of space and belief and more mundane, or profane, domainsof worldly human endeavour. Some definitions, such as that of anthropologistClifford Geertz (1973), focus on the symbolic power of religion and its ability to influence how people understand their place in the world and also to impart1111234522267891012345222678222920 11112345678930123456789401234222 The questionTHE ROLE OF RELIGION TODAY Illustrative exampleISLAMIC STATES AND MOVEMENTS ResponsesDO R
5177 GLOBAL POLITICS 00-10_Brev-bp.qxd 8/9/08 10:32 Page 98 play a role in world politics include the period when Afghanistan was under the rule of a highly conservative movement known as the Taliban.
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