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Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics (Paperback)
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Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics (Paperback)
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Loot Price R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
You Save R71 (17%)
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In this book, Benne describes and analyzes the wrong ways to relate
religion and politics and offers a better way.
Benne calls the two main bad ways of relating religion and politics
separationism and fusionism. Secular separationists decry all
involvement of religion in politics; religious separationists, on
the other hand, advocate abstaining from politics in the name of
religious purity. Fusionism comes in many types, but the type that
most concerns Benne is the use of religionin this case
Christianityfor political ends, which turns religion into an
instrument for purposes other than its own main reason for being.
Rejecting these bad ways of relating religion and politics, Benne
offers a better way that he calls critical engagement which derives
from the Lutheran tradition, with a few tweaks to adapt the
tradition to deal well with the new challenges of our present
situation.
As Benne points out, The question is not so much whether American
religion will have political effects. It most definitely will. The
more serious questions are: Should it? How should it? In this book,
Benne offers a clear and useful guide to a subject too often
characterized by confusion and loud rhetoric.
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