{"product_id":"crossing-the-gods-world-religions-and-worldly-politics-9780813532073","title":"Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003e2002 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e examines the sometimes antagonistic and sometimes cozy but always difficult and dangerous relationship between religion and politics in countries around the globe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eminent sociologist of religion Jay Demerath traveled to Brazil, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, and Thailand to explore the history and current relationship of religion, politics, and the state in each country. In the first part of this wide-ranging book, he asks, What are the basic fault lines along which current tensions and conflicts have formed? What are the trajectories of change from past to present, and how do they help predict the future? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the book's second part the author returns home to focus on the United States the only nation founded specifically on the principle of a separation between religion and state and examines the extent to which this principle actually holds and the consequences when it does not. Highlighting such issues as culture wars, violence, globalization, and the fluidity of individual religious identity, Demerath exposes the provincialism and fallacies underlying many of our views of religion and politics worldwide. \u003cp\u003eFinally, Demerath examines America's status as the world's most religious nation. He places that claim within a comparative context and argues that our country is not \"more religious\" but \"differently religious.\" He argues that it represents a unique combination of congregational religion, religious pluralism, and civil religion. But the United States also illustrates the universal tendency for the sacred to give way to the secular and for the secular to generate new forms of the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Demerath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.44w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813532073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJay Demerath is a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the author of ten books, among them \u003ci\u003eSacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Bridging of Faiths: Religion and Politics in a New England City\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the immediate past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40414634475635,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":61.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_77b70ca7-1463-4654-92a6-84fac81ba040.jpg?v=1662212843","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/crossing-the-gods-world-religions-and-worldly-politics-9780813532073","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}