POLI 476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ijtihad, Amartya Sen, Ijma

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 476
• Professor: Erik Kuhonta

Document Summary

Argument about religion in democracy => origins in early democratic country s. When look at some trends in late 19th century => a number of countries share protestant religion (us, england, poland ) => share christian protestant heritage so argument that protestantism can be linked to democracy. This linkage may be ideological, or in terms of world views of protestantism = correlate or have affinity with liberal democracy or that democratizing countries in late 19th in western hemisphere where an accidental by product of the reformation. 2 key lines of thinking: stems from their ideals, inherent within these religious that leads to macro outcome of democracy, accidental by product of unintended consequence of reformation process. // marx"s weber ethic of capitalism, get eventually some degree of egalitarianism in society. Link between p. and democracy: p. has emphasis on individual and skeptically on individual relationship with god => has egalitarian aspect to it.