The Masks of the Political God: Religion and Political Parties in Contemporary Democracies

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Luca Ozzano Jeffrey Haynes

The Masks of the Political God

Religion and Political Parties in Contemporary Democracies

Luca Ozzano, Jeffrey Haynes

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English

ECPR Press
31 May 2024

Religious institutions & organisations; Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy

The book analyses the influence of religion on political parties and party politics in contemporary democracies. To do so, it compares five cases of democracies belonging to different geographic-cultural areas, and marked by different religious majorities: India, Israel, Italy, Turkey, and the US. The time span of the analysis is the period between 1980 (year which can be conventionally regarded as a turning point for the return of religion in the public and the political spheres at the global level), and the present day. Unlike most works on religion and parties, this book does not simply take into account officially ""religious"" parties, but all ""religiously oriented parties"" (with an influence of religion on party manifestos, constituencies and/or factions) even if they are officially secular. The theoretical framework is provided by the ""cleavages theory"", which considers some relevant traumatic social events as the origin of specific kinds (or families) of political parties; and by a typology of religiously oriented parties dividing them into five categories: conservative, fundamentalist, progressive, nationalist, and camp party

By: Luca Ozzano
Foreword by: Jeffrey Haynes
Imprint: ECPR Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781910259849
ISBN 10: 1910259845
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 31 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Luca Ozzano is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, where he teaches Political Science and Politics and Religion. He is chair of the Religion and Politics groups at ECPR, IPSA and SISP, and Associate Editor of the ECPR journal Political Research Exchange. Jeffrey's areas of expertise are religion and international relations, religion and politics, democracy and democratisation, development studies and comparative politics and globalisation.