Religious Politology

Religious politics researches - as a sub-area of ​​the political science discipline political theory and the history of ideas - the relationship between religion and politics . The term was coined by Miroljub Jevtić and Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch in particular from the last decade of the 20th century . The latter founded the "Institute for Religious Politics" at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 1996 as an affiliated institute .

Emergence

In 1998 Bärsch wrote about religious politics in comparison to its sister disciplines sociology of religion , philosophy of religion and psychology of religion :

“... that previous research on the connection between politics and religion - only Theodor W. Adorno , Ernst Bloch , Micha Brumlik , Hans Maier , Jacob Taubes , Klaus Vondung , Eric Voegelin and, last but not least, Max Weber - are still to be mentioned cannot be assigned to an independent discipline of political science. In addition to the sociology of religion, philosophy of religion and psychology of religion are established areas. Religious politics cannot yet be established because it does not yet exist. "

- Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch : 1998

Research areas

According to Jevtić and Bärsch, religious politics has four central research areas :

Religious teaching with direct political content

Everything that has a direct political content or a message in the context of religious doctrine and practice , for example the understanding of religion in the following terms: violence, power, political authority, state, political organization, war and peace and so on.

Religious teaching without direct political content

Everything that has no direct political content or no direct political message but direct political consequences within the framework of religious behavior and religious practice, for example the establishment of religious and pilgrimage sites .

Politicians and religion

The relationship of political decision-makers in the narrower sense to religion and religious communities, for example the statements of political parties and political groups on religion and religious communities .

Secular behavior without religious motives

Anything that, in the context of allegedly secular behavior, has no religious motives, but has religious effects. If, for example, in a multi-denominational society, members of one religion hold a monopoly on an economic branch, this has political consequences. These research areas are constantly evolving.

Research into the relationship between religion and politics in the context of political science has a long tradition (including Karl Löwith , Raymond Aron , Eric Voegelin , Hans Blumenberg , Hans Maier , Richard Faber ).

The "Religion and Politics" department is part of the American Association of Politology . In Europe, this branch was taught independently for the first time in Eastern Europe at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade by Miroljub Jevtić in 1993. Also in Belgrade, the "Center for Religious Research and Faith Tolerance" published the first specialist journal in this regard from February 2007. The editor-in-chief and responsible editor is also Jevtić.

literature

• Miroljub Jevtić,
  • Religija i politika - uvod u Politikologiju religije , Institut za političke studije i Faculty političkih nauka, Beograd, 2002, str. 15 / Religion and Politics - Introduction to Political Religion , Institute for Political Studies and Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade 2002, p. 15, ISBN 86-7419-048-0
  • Religion as Political Science Research Subject . In: Religion and Politics. Southwest University "Neofit Rilski", Faculty of Law and History, Blagoevgrad 2005, pp. 45–46
  • Political Science and Religion . In: Politics and Religion Journal 1/2007, pp. 63–64,

http://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/images/pdf_files/engleski/volume1_no1/political_science_and_religion.pdf

• • Od socioloskog ka politikoloskom pristupu religije [From the sociological to the political science approach of religion] . In: Gradina 5-6 / 1991, ISSN  0436-2616
• Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch,
  • The political religion of National Socialism , 2nd edition, Munich 2002. ISBN 978-3-7705-3172-1
  • The young Goebbels - Redemption and Destruction , Munich 2004. ISBN 978-3-7705-3806-5
  • / Berghoff / Sonnenschmidt: Those who fail to recognize religion do not recognize politics (Perspektiven der Religionspolitologie), Würzburg 2005. ISBN 978-3-8260-2843-4
  • / Alter / Berghoff: The construction of the nation against the Jews , Munich 1999. ISBN 978-3-7705-3326-8
• Reinhard Sonnenschmidt, Politische Gnosis , Munich 2001. ISBN 978-3-7705-3626-9

Web links

• Magazine for Political Religion (English)
• Political Science University of Belgrade, English
• Institute for Political Religion in Duisburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch: The fight between God and evil - Carl Schmitt's concept of the political from the perspective of religious politics . In: Hans Uske et al. (Editor): “Sociology as Crisis Science: Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Dankwart Danckwerts”. LIT Verlag, Münster 1998, pp. 333–352. ISBN 3-8258-3676-2