Lincoln’s Political Religion and Religious Politics: Or, What Lincoln Teaches Us about the Proper Connection between Religion and Politics

Author(s):  
Lucas E. Morel
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Bagge Laustsen

The study of politics and religion is today fragmented to a degree that you can hardly refer to it as one academic field anymore. This article lists four fundamentally different approaches to the study of politics and religion: political religion; religious politics; civil religion; and finally, political theology. The article compares the four approaches on a number of significant parameters: their understanding of what religion is; their critical ambition; to which degree a preliminary distinction between politics and religion is presupposed; and most importantly, how to approach the relationship between religion and politics in an analytical, strategic sense. The ambition with this survey is to support a discussion between the four approaches with a view to reach a more complete understanding of the relationship between politics and religion in all its complexity.


ASKETIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Saputro

Indonesia is a democratic country in carrying out its government. Elected Indonesian Presidents in a variety of ways, namely elected by parliament, and by direct elections through elections. Religious relations in state life in Indonesia, especially in political activities cannot be separated. Religion and politics share the role of the institution of regulation and maintaining value. In acts of religious politics are often used as vehicles to win political battles or elections. In carrying out political activities, state authority becomes the highest authority. Religion in politics is under the state whose role is to unite state authority with social power.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Gutterman ◽  
Andrew R. Murphy

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