Religion and Power

Faith as the World's Oldest Political Technology

Levent Karaman

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Vij Books
30 November 2025

Religion & politics; Nationalism; Constitution: government & the state

A nation can feel holy without a single priest. A platform can preach without a single scripture. This book reveals how rulers, movements, and media turn belief into power-how rituals synchronise crowds, how stories harden into law, and how symbols become the quiet machinery of consent. If you've ever wondered why religion and politics keep colliding, why civil religion feels unavoidably sacred, or how faith and propaganda travel so fast online, this is your field guide.

- Understand the logic of political theology without jargon: the real deals between altars and thrones.

- See empires and nations through a sharper lens-from Rome and the Christian empire to American religious politics and today's theocracy in the modern world.

- Decode how movements weaponise identity in religion and nationalism, and why digital platforms now function like churches.

Written for curious citizens, policy thinkers, journalists, and readers of serious history, it offers a portable model you can use anywhere-from city councils to newsfeeds. You'll learn how doctrine becomes discipline, how sacred calendars become political schedules, and how to test whether a law protects conscience or merely sanctifies control. By the last page, you won't just ""spot bias""; you'll read power in liturgy, law, and code-and you'll know where to stand when belief asks for your loyalty.

By: Levent Karaman
Imprint: Vij Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9789390349616
ISBN 10: 9390349613
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 30 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Levent Karaman writes about the machinery of belief and the craft of power. Raised at a crossroads where Byzantine domes face Ottoman courtyards and street prayers mingle with parliamentary debates, he studies how stories harden into laws and rituals into institutions. His work blends political theology, anthropology, and the textures of lived history-from chancery records and endowment ledgers to today's algorithmic pulpits-to ask a simple question: what makes people obey, and when should they refuse? Karaman's essays have traced the long arc from bishops as bureaucrats to platforms as priests, arguing for a public ethic that honours faith without surrendering freedom. He lives between libraries and ports, convinced that the best ideas arrive where trade winds and arguments meet.