Chapter 15
Learning Objectives
- Understand how political scientists think about the concepts of modernity and modernization, ideology, religion, and secularization.
- Understand the major modern ideologies.
- Understand the major modern ways in which institutional linkages between religions and the state are organized.
- Analyze the debate about the future of ideological exchange in modern societies.
Key Concepts
- Modernity and Modernization
- Ideology
- Religion
- Secularization, Religion, and Modern Politics
- Religious Conflict
- Modern Ideologies
- Liberalism
- Fascism
- Socialism
- Modern Forms of Religion in Politics
- Lay and Religious States
- Denominationalism