POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Socalled, Liberation Theology, Morocco
29 Jul 2013
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Political dev includes the secularization of politics, the progressive exclusion of religion from the pol system. In the middle east, techno tools of modernization have served to reinforce the traditional belief and practice. Since the end of the cold war, islamic funda has supplanted soviet comm as the most widely perceived threat to w security: the meeting of church and state. Religious orga and beliefs continue to influence pol behavior. Black baptist church were in the forefront of the american civil rights movements. The blending of religion and pol is most apparent in theocratic states (= pol systems dominated by by religious leaders and institutions). Eg. taliban ruled afghanistan (96-01), and the gov became an extension of funda clergy: great religions in the 3rd world. 4 major religions : catholicism, islam, buddhism, hinduism. None of the 3rdw religions are monolithic. Buddhism has 2 major schools : thevarada (way of elders) = southern buddhism (laos,
