Religion and politics in post-1991 Ethiopia: making sense of Bryan S. Turner's Managing Religions'
Bryan S. Turner's concept of managing religion postulates that it is the modern state's prerogative to exert some degree of control over religions. For Turner, this is important because of increasing religious revival and the challenges it poses to public order and security. Turner describ...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2018
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Religion, state & society
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-42 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ethiopia
/ Religious policy
/ History 1991-2017
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| Further subjects: | B
cooptation
B upgrading B enclavement B Politics B Repression B Ethiopia B Managing religion |
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| Summary: | Bryan S. Turner's concept of managing religion postulates that it is the modern state's prerogative to exert some degree of control over religions. For Turner, this is important because of increasing religious revival and the challenges it poses to public order and security. Turner describes two main approaches to managing religion, namely upgrading and enclavement. The former refers to modernising or partial secularisation' of a given religious institution or group while the latter is a tactic of isolating a certain community of believers. Turner's two approaches are developed to analyse contexts affected by recent migration. While concurring with the efficacy of upgrading and enclavement, in this article, I argue that states adapt different mechanisms depending on the context that necessitates their intervention. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Ethiopia, I introduce cooptation and repression as two additional approaches used by authoritarian states in countries that are less affected by migration. |
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| ISSN: | 1465-3974 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2017.1348016 |