POLI 476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Released Time, Female Genital Mutilation, Religious Pluralism
3 Apr 2016
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Week 10: religion and state: comparative historical and theoretical perspectives. Uk official state maintain religion and church. Transporting the idea of church state relation beyond the west is a problem church is not the same concept in other regions of the world. Islam mosque is not the same idea of a church: relation to a dynasty . Hinduism does not have a ecclesiastical structure in the way the church has linked with the authority of the church. Only in latin america does the equivalence fits perfectly because roman catholic society. All laws against christian church will be abolished. Is given exclusive rights to practice its fate. 1: a church may be supported through taxes and under the authority of a state, england the monarchy is the official head of the church and the prime minister put the bishop of. The state has control over religion: associated with hobbes, religion as a source of division creates conflict, deeply divisive.
