Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 2 (2011)

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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 2 (2011) is written by Patrick Michel and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004216413 (ISBN 10) and 9789004216419 (ISBN 13).

Over the past thirty years, religion has increasingly played a relevant role, both on a national level and in international affairs. The attempt made by politicians to reframe the policy of social cohesion in a neo-nationalist light (one land, one language, one religion = one political community), demising any kind of multiculturalism, facilitating instead a return to assimilation shaped by fear of the other (culture, religion, language, and so on), is very often associated with a restoration of the primacy of religious discourse in the public sphere. It is not just a return of religion in the public sphere, but the exploitation of religion by politics to reconstruct a social cohesion in the absence of ideological resources.