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Religious Regimes and State Formation: Towards a Research Perspective

God and politics have nothing to do with each other. So one would conclude from many sociological and anthropological studies that present systems of meaning sui generis. No mention is made of the power processes that generate and change them. Using data from Catholic Dutch Brabant and Norbert Elias...

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Published in:Anthropological quarterly 1987-01, Vol.60 (1), p.1-11
Main Author: Bax, Mart
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:God and politics have nothing to do with each other. So one would conclude from many sociological and anthropological studies that present systems of meaning sui generis. No mention is made of the power processes that generate and change them. Using data from Catholic Dutch Brabant and Norbert Elias's ideas on civilization and state formation, this paper presents a model for studying the mutual conditioning of processes of power and meaning. Religious regimes and states have much in common, but also remarkable differences. Systematic comparison of them may improve our insight into the interrelationship of fields of inquiry that have drifted apart.
ISSN:0003-5491
1534-1518
DOI:10.2307/3317393