(DOWNLOAD) "Correlated Conflicts: The Independent Nature of Ethnic Strife (Beyond Beliefs: Religion)" by Harvard International Review ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Correlated Conflicts: The Independent Nature of Ethnic Strife (Beyond Beliefs: Religion)
- Author : Harvard International Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 257 KB
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There is little agreement on the role of religion in ethnic conflict, or, for that matter, its role in politics and society in general. While some argue that it is a central factor, others claim that religion has little or no influence. The belief that religion is not important dominated the social sciences for most of the 20th century. Schools of thought such as modernization theory in political science and secularization theory in sociology had their origins in the formation of the social sciences as a basis for providing a rational and scientific basis for society and politics. These theories were supposed to replace the previous "primordial" religious and ethnic bases for society and politics. Only in the past two decades have social scientists begun seriously to question the assumption that modernity was causing religion to become an epiphenomenon. Among those arguments that claim that religion is central, Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" theory is perhaps the most widely known. Huntington posits that the majority of conflicts in the post-Cold War era, including ethnic conflict, will be between several civilizations with differing religions. While Huntington's specific theory is controversial, there are many other less disputed formulations that religion is important. This brief description does not nearly do justice to an extensive and varied literature, but it is sufficient to show that contradicting conceptions of the role of religion exist in the modern era.
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