Religion and Politics - Quotes Flashcards
‘nothing more or less than codependent, portable discursive markers whose relationship we can date to a specific period in early modern Europe and whose utility continues to this day’
Arnal and McCutcheon
‘religion and politics are not now, and in fact never have been, separate and hermetically sealed spheres of human thought and action’
Routledge Companion to Study of Religion
‘the role of the state is to protect individual self-expression, rather than to constitute it’
Arnal andMcCutcheon
‘developed in the research laboratory that we call the modern academy’
Arnal and McCutcheon
‘the separation of religion from the transcendent social in general is, even in the places where it appears at first to exist, superficial and transient’
Bloch
‘that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’
Declaration of Independence
‘the public sphere is the arena where religion and politics regularly overlap and where their influence on social life is negotiated’
Seiwert
‘secularisation and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernisation comes more secularisation’
Berger
‘Opium of the people’
Marx
‘the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity’
Freud
greater access to information ‘undermined religion’s control of knowledge’
Fox
‘God is Dead’
Nietzsche
‘no longer will any serious social scientist deny that it possesses enough influence to be relevant’
Fox
‘doing politics is striving for power’
Weber
‘justify them as being non-negotiable demands transforming them from relative to absolute values’
Seiwert
