Religion and the state in pluralistic environments

Jack Barbalet; Adam Possamai; Bryan S. Turner

Religion and the state in pluralistic environments

Jack Barbalet
, Adam Possamai
, Bryan S. Turner

School of Social Sciences

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Abstract

The political dimension of religions and their necessary relations with the state in terms of both competition and sponsorship has been frequently ignored by sociologists of religion who have instead attempted to analyse religions through the social and organisational sources of transcendental aspirations inherent in religious doctrines. These tensions within religion, between organisational imperatives and political interests on the one hand and spiritual experience and sacred symbolism on the other, are in great need of deeper exploration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-9
Number of pages	7
Journal	Australian Religion Studies Review
Volume	24
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2011

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