Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty

ISBN: 9789004290556 出版年：2015 页码：338 Brill

Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government.