Chapter 15 Learning Objectives and Key Concepts

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
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