Political science of religion

Political science of religion

Political Science of Religion or Politicology of Religion ,or Politology of religion,,or Politics and religion, or Religion and politics is one of the youngest subfields of Political Science. It was established in the last decades of the twentieth century.

----

RESEARCH AREAS

Its basic research areas are:

1. All aspects of religious teachings and practices that have direct political contents and messages, such as religious understanding of government, power, political authority, state, political organizing, war, peace, etc;

2. All aspects of religious behavior and practice that don’t have direct political contents and messages but do have direct political consequences, such as building of religious edifices, pilgrimages, etc.;

3. Attitudes and positions of political subjects in the narrow sense towards religion and religious communities, such as that of political parties and pressure groups towards religion and religious communities;

4. Everything within apparently completely secular public behavior with no religious motives that causes religious consequences, such as an economic monopoly achieved by a religious group within a multi-confessional society – it cannot but cause political consequences.

These fields of research are in constant development. Political Science of Religion is studied at almost all universities and political science departments in the US. [http://www.apsanet.org American Political Science Association] has a section [http://www.apsa-religionandpolitics.org “Religion and Politics”] .

In Europe there is a growth of this discipline and in the Balkans and Eastern Europe it was founded for the first time in 1993 at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade, Serbia.http://www.fpn.bg.ac.yu/eng/pages/p_id1/o_p.html Also, but this time globally, it was in Belgrade, Serbia, that the first biannual "Politics and Religion" Journal,http://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com, (politikologijareligije@yahoo.com) was founded in 2007 and its first issue appeared in February ’07. It is published by the Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance. Its spiritus movens and Editor in Chief is Dr. Miroljub Jevtic, professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia

'

""'REFERENCES

Miroljub Jevtic,Religion as Political Science Research Subject,in "Religion and Politics",ed. South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Faculty of Law and History, Blagoevgrad , Bulgaria,2005,pp.45-46;

Miroljub Jevtic,"Religija i politika-Uvod u Politikologiju religije"(Religion and Politics-Introduction into Political Science of Religion) ed. Institut for Political Studies and Department of Political Science, Belgrad,2002,pp.15;

Miroljub Jevtic,Political Science and Religion,in "Politics and Religion,journal, 1/2007",pp.63-64;

Miroljub Jevtic,Nabozenstvo a politika:Teoreticky Pristup(Religion and Politics:Theoretical Approach)in:"2007 Rocenka Ustavu pre vztahy statu a cirkvi"(Institut for State-Church Relations)Bratislava,2008, Slovakia,pp.104-105;

----

LINK

WWW.APSANET.ORG


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • political science — political scientist. a social science dealing with political institutions and with the principles and conduct of government. [1770 80] * * * Academic discipline concerned with the empirical study of government and politics. Political scientists… …   Universalium

  • Science and religion in the Czech lands and Slovakia — Historical backdrop The field of “science and religion” (for lack of a better term; to denote that it is a single notion, we shall use the abbreviation “S R”) has a (relatively) long history in the Czech lands and Slovakia. The census of 1910… …   Wikipedia

  • Political science — For the Randy Newman song of the same name, see Political Science (song). Part of the Politics series Politics …   Wikipedia

  • List of important publications in political science — This is a list of important publications in political science. Comparative Politics *George Tsebelis *Mancur Olson *Barrington Moore. Dictatorship and Democracy *Barzilai Gad. 2003. Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities …   Wikipedia

  • Religion — This article is about a general set of beliefs about life, purpose, etc.. For other uses, see Religion (disambiguation). Religious redirects here. For a member of a Catholic religious order, see Religious (Catholicism) …   Wikipedia

  • Religion — • The voluntary subjection of oneself to God Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Religion     Religion     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Political theology — or public theology is a branch of both political philosophy and practical theology that investigates the ways in which theological concepts or ways of thinking underlie political, social, economic and cultural discourses. The same term has been… …   Wikipedia

  • Science in Medieval Western Europe — consisted of the study of nature, including practical disciplines, the mathematics and natural philosophy. During the Middle Ages Western Europe would see a virtual collapse of civilization at the era s outset leading to a period of intellectual… …   Wikipedia

  • Religion and mythology — differ, but have overlapping aspects. Both terms refer to systems of concepts that are of high importance to a certain community, making statements concerning the supernatural or sacred. Generally, mythology is considered one component or aspect… …   Wikipedia

  • Political arguments of gun politics in the United States — center around disagreements that range from the practical mdash; does gun ownership cause or prevent crime? mdash; to the constitutional mdash; how should the Second Amendment be interpreted? mdash; to the ethical mdash; what should the balance… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”