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Defining Religion Defining Religion
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Religious Doctrine and Its Limits Religious Doctrine and Its Limits
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Religion as Multidimensional Religion as Multidimensional
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What Religion Is Not What Religion Is Not
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Religion as Social Organization Religion as Social Organization
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Religious Institutions Religious Institutions
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Religious Actors Religious Actors
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Religion as Social Identity Religion as Social Identity
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Beyond Religion Beyond Religion
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Nonreligious Institutions Nonreligious Institutions
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Nonreligious Actors Nonreligious Actors
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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1 Politics in Muslim Societies What’s Religion Got to Do with It?
Get accessMelani Cammett, Harvard University
Pauline Jones, University of Michigan
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Published:08 September 2021
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Abstract
In Western scholarship, depictions of social and political life in the Muslim world oscillate between emphasizing the importance of religion and rejecting its relevance altogether. This chapter explores how—if at all—religion influences social, political, and economic outcomes in the Muslim world. Based on a narrow definition of religion as doctrine—that is, the set of beliefs and practices that delimit a particular faith—the authors agree with much of the scholarly community that religion is not the root cause of various social, political, and economic outcomes in the Muslim world. Their broader conceptualization of religion as both the beliefs and practices that constitute doctrine and the infrastructure that sustains these beliefs and practices enables them to adopt a more nuanced approach. The authors argue that doctrine is critical to understanding religion’s potential force, whereas infrastructure—specifically, social organization (i.e., institutions and actors) and social identity—is the key to understanding why, when, and where religion has agency to enact that force. The goal is not to make universal claims, but to understand the effects of religious institutions, actors, and identities in a given context. This approach can apply more generally to Western and non-Western contexts with distinct dominant religious traditions and help to integrate the study of politics in Muslim societies more fully into mainstream comparative analytical frameworks.
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