TY - ENCYC

T1 - Religion and Politics

AU - Bandak, Andreas

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Religion and politics provide an interesting juxtaposition. On the one hand, both may initially come across as rather self-evident categories, with religion dealing with human perceptions and what people hold as sacred, and politics addressing the control and governance of fellow human beings. Nonetheless, such a simple opposition should only work as a starting point for an interrogation of both terms and how they have come to look and function as empirical and analytical categories. Focusing on the ways that religion is played out in relation to politics reveals different historical and cultural constellations and positions, which can be highlighted as variations of religion as politics, religion in politics, religion out of politics, and religion not politics.

AB - Religion and politics provide an interesting juxtaposition. On the one hand, both may initially come across as rather self-evident categories, with religion dealing with human perceptions and what people hold as sacred, and politics addressing the control and governance of fellow human beings. Nonetheless, such a simple opposition should only work as a starting point for an interrogation of both terms and how they have come to look and function as empirical and analytical categories. Focusing on the ways that religion is played out in relation to politics reveals different historical and cultural constellations and positions, which can be highlighted as variations of religion as politics, religion in politics, religion out of politics, and religion not politics.

U2 - 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2238

DO - 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2238

M3 - Encyclopedia chapter

BT - Wiley-Blackwell's International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

A2 - Callan, Hillary

PB - Wiley-Blackwell

ER -