Religion and politics in processes of modernisation

Lübbe, Hermann

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“…This understanding of political religions clearly does not fit Islamism, nor do Voegelin’s concepts of political religions and Gnosticism, culminating as they do in the idea of the ‘murder of God’. This is why authors like Juan Linz (1996) and Hermann Lübbe (2005) have proposed adding the concept of ‘politicised religions’. Linz follows Voegelin and Gentile in defining political religions by their secular character.…”

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“…Linz follows Voegelin and Gentile in defining political religions by their secular character. Political religions consist in an ideology with a purely innerworldly belief system; its leaders are political leaders, and their aim is to replace the existing religions – often with the declared willingness to destroy them (Linz 1996, p. 130, see also Lübbe 2005, p. 57). Politicised religions share with political religions the aim of abolishing the distinction between politics and religions (ibid., p. 132), but their political ideology is formulated on the basis of a religious belief system.…”

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“…However, Linz does not suggest the application of the concept of politicised religions to Islamism; his chief example of a politicised religion is the specific form of national Catholicism in Spain. Lübbe (2005) and Tibi (2007) describe politicised religions like Islamism as a major challenge of our time, but without discussing the analytical relationship between political and politicised religions. It is therefore necessary to reconsider Islamism and to examine which of these two concepts might appropriately characterise it.…”

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Islamism and Western Political Religions

Hansen

2009

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The political ideas of Islamism as they have been formulated by Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb share a number of striking similarities with Western political religions like Communism and National Socialism, in particular the radical dualist interpretation of history and the understanding of politics as a struggle against evil. However, the concept of political religions as it has been elaborated by Voegelin and further developed by Gentile implies the deification of a secular entity. Thus, if political religions are defined as being based on secularism, this concept seems to be inappropriate for the analysis of Islamism. This paper investigates whether this interpretation is correct and whether the concept of 'politicised religions' should be considered more useful for the analysis of Islamism. It gives an overview of the concepts of political and politicised religions and of the political ideas of Islamism based on the writings of Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb. The theses are that (1) both 'fundamentalism' and 'politicised religions' are misleading concepts for a comparison of their political theories with Western political religions; and (2) the concept of political religions is indeed applicable to Islamism, if we arrive at the understanding that not secularism but the radicalisation of the friend-foe-distinction and the understanding of politics as a purge of evil from the world ought to be considered its central themes.

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Nigeria: Muslim Youth and Internal Others in a Multi-religious Nation

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Understanding the Popular Appeal of Fascism, National Socialism and Soviet Communism: The Revival of Totalitarianism Theory and Political Religion

Ehret

2007

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This article surveys the historical literature on totalitarianism and 'political religion' since 1990 that has little in common with the Cold War interpretation of the personalised and total rule of Hitler and Stalin. Inspired by cultural history, researchers have instead revived 'political religion' theory as an analytical tool to explain the popular appeal and the success of totalitarian movements. Against the background of some general considerations and controversies about the applicability of 'political religion' theory to such diverse phenomena as Fascist Italy, anti-clerical National Socialism and anti-religious Soviet Communism, this survey evaluates recent scholarship on the sacralisation of the language and rites of totalitarian movements and the effects this had on their success as well as their willingness to use excessive violence against their political opponents. The author argues that the revived 'political religion' theory can offer a useful multi-dimensional access to the workings of totalitarian movements as long as it does not abandon a historical and political context. The article closes with a glance at Islamic fundamentalism and the 'war on terror' of the United States and their allies, a conflict that is increasingly associated with a new totalitarianism and politicised religion.Isa Vermehren, an eighteen-year old well-known cabaret singer at the time, had breakfast at Kanzler's on Berlin's grand boulevard Unter den Linden together with friends and colleagues of Werner Finck's political cabaret Die Katakombe when people began to gather along the avenue. The group of friends was soon enveloped by the well-orchestrated celebrations of May Day by the National Socialist regime. Isa Vermehren later told her biographer how she experienced the spectacle:Suddenly one motorcycle raced down the middle of the avenue, right up to the Schlossplatz, then raced back. Next, two other motorbikes sped down the avenue and back. For a long time nothing happened after that. Then came mounted police galloping down the street, followed by four automobiles and so forth. And at last, after a long interval, slowly, solemnly, motorbikes ahead and following, the Fuehrer's car! . . . Everyone sprang to their feet, saluted with raised arms and

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Religion and politics in processes of modernisation

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Islamism and Western Political Religions

Islamism and Western Political Religions

Nigeria: Muslim Youth and Internal Others in a Multi-religious Nation

Understanding the Popular Appeal of Fascism, National Socialism and Soviet Communism: The Revival of Totalitarianism Theory and Political Religion

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