The book analyses the influence of religion on political parties
and party politics in contemporary democracies. To do so, it
compares five cases of democracies belonging to different
geographic-cultural areas, and marked by different religious
majorities: India, Israel, Italy, Turkey, and the US. The time span
of the analysis is the period between 1980 (year which can be
conventionally regarded as a turning point for the return of
religion in the public and the political spheres at the global
level), and the present day. Unlike most works on religion and
parties, this book does not simply take into account officially
"religious" parties, but all "religiously oriented parties" (with
an influence of religion on party manifestos, constituencies and/or
factions) even if they are officially secular. The theoretical
framework is provided by the "cleavages theory", which considers
some relevant traumatic social events as the origin of specific
kinds (or families) of political parties; and by a typology of
religiously oriented parties dividing them into five categories:
conservative, fundamentalist, progressive, nationalist, and camp
party.
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