The Politics of Religious Party Change

Islamist and Catholic Parties in Comparative Perspective

AvA. Kadir Yildirim

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

The Politics of Religious Party Change examines the ideological change and secularization of religious political parties and asks: when and why do religious parties become less anti-system? In a comparative analysis, the book traces the striking similarities in the historical origins of Islamist and Catholic parties in the Middle East and Western Europe, chronicles their conflicts with existing religious authorities, and analyzes the subsequently divergent trajectories of Islamist and Catholic parties. In examining how religious institutional structures affect the actions of religious parties in electoral politics, the book finds that centralized and hierarchical religious authority structures - such as the Vatican - incentivize religious parties to move in more pro-system, secular, and democratic directions. By contrast, less centralized religious authority structures - such as in Sunni Islam - create more permissive environments for religious parties to be anti-system and more prone to freely-formed parties and hybrid party movements.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009170758

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A. Kadir Yildirim is Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Ohio State University.

Recensioner i media

'Religious parties around the world, such as the Muslim Brotherhood associated parties of the Arabic-speaking counties, or the Christian Democratic parties of Western Europe, all began their lives as traditionalist organizations fervently opposed to the expansion of personal freedoms and deeply skeptical of political democracy. And yet some of these parties evolved not just to accommodate themselves to these things, but to actively champion them, while others remained as they were, tilting against the social and cultural change and waging war on modernity itself. In explaining this difference, A.Kadir Yildirim has produced a model of comparative social science and an instant classic in the study of religion and politics.' Tarek Masoud, Harvard University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Explaining religious party change; 2. Catholic and Islamic religious institutions; 3. Anticlericalism, religious revival, and the rise of religious political identities; 4. The origins of religio-political identity; 5. Intra-party conflict.