Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics

by Robert Benne

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802863647
• ISBN13: 9780802863645
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"