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The Origins of Religiopolitical Identity


The Origins of Religiopolitical Identity (Chapter 4)

This chapter analyzes the emergence of mass religious movements in the Middle East and Western Europe.

Identity, religion, and the state: The origin of theocracy - ScienceDirect

An empirical analysis of the transition from premodern to modern theocracy, based on a unique dataset of religion and politics in world history.

Religion and Identity | Facing History & Ourselves

To belong to a religion often means more than sharing its beliefs and participating in its rituals; it also means being part of a community and, sometimes, a ...

Religious Nationalism and Religious Influence

Religious nationalism relies on religious identities and myths to define the nation and its goals. In turn, nationalism, to use Ernest Gellner's ...

How the Christian Identity Movement Began

The acidly anti-Semitic religion driving much of today's extreme right first gained a following as a Victorian curiosity, a benign British eccentricity ...

Christian Identity | ADL

Christian Identity is a religious ideology popular in extreme right-wing circles. Adherents believe that whites of European descent can be traced back to the ...

Christian Identity's New Role On The Extreme Right

The Christian Identity movement developed out of John Wilson's 19th-century theory of British Israelism. Although some of the ideas key to the ...

Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity ...

Christian Identity is barely half a century old. Its doctrinal basis was established after World War II by a network of independent preaehers and writers.

Christian Identity - Wikipedia

Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity · No single document expresses the Christian Identity belief system ...

Religion and Identity

Second, some scholars view religion as an inhibiting source of identity formation (see, King, 2003). ... religions, diversity of religious experiences, and ...

The Politics of American Religious Identity | Kathleen Flake

Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the ...

Religion, Identity and the Origins of Ancient Israel - Sparks - 2007

The Israelites began their trek through history as monotheistic Yahwists. It was only because of outside influences, especially from the ...

The Meaning of Religio-Ethnic Identity and Identification - jstor

play in defining the nature of an ethnic group, it does not preclude the separation of religious and ethnic factors for specific groups. 239. Page 2. 240 ...

7.3: What is Religious Identity? - Social Sci LibreTexts

Given this, religious identity is defined as how a person or group of persons think of themselves as belonging to and representing the values of ...

Religious identity - Wikipedia

Religious identity is a specific type of identity formation. Particularly, it is the sense of group membership to a religion and the importance of this ...

Uncovering the Origins of Identity Politics | The Heritage Foundation

As this book further demonstrates, activists of those earlier decades sought to move the country away from its limited-government traditions ...

[AAS21 Podcast] Episode #8: The Formation of 'Religio-Racial' Identity

Eddie: Right. Judith: --these different groups. Political, religious, religio-political, and looking for something and, um, you know, I-- I ...

6. Religious diversity and national identity - Pew Research Center

The most common view is that having people from many different religions, ethnic groups and cultures makes a country a better place to live.

Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England

Stillman argues that questions of religious identity have dominated historical and literary studies of the early modern period for over a decade. But his aim is ...

Identity politics | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

Identity politics in the United States developed in the 1980s and '90s as a reaction to the perceived failure of liberal civil rights ...