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Good and bad ways to think about religion and politics

In this book, Benne describes and analyzes the wrong ways to relate religion and politics and offers a better way. Benne calls the two main bad ways of relating religion and politics separationism and fusionism. Secular separationists decry all involvement of religion in politics; religious separationists, on the other hand, advocate abstaining from politics in the name of religious purity. Fusionism comes in many types, but the type that most concerns Benne is the use of religionin this case Christianityfor political ends, which turns religion into an instrument for purposes other than its own main reason for being

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Series Title
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Call Number
261.7 BEN g
Publisher
Grand Rapids : Wm.B Eerdmans.,
Collation
vii,120p.; 22 cm.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
978-0-8028-6364-5
Classification
261.7
Content Type
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Media Type
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Carrier Type
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Edition
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Subject(s)
CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICS
Specific Detail Info
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Statement of Responsibility
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