Catholic and Muslim Politics in Comparative Perspective

José Casanova

《Taiwan Journal of Democracy》 1卷2期 (2005/12) Pp. 89-108

https://doi.org/10.29654/TJD.200512.0005

並列摘要

The contemporary global discourse on Islam as a fundamentalist antimodern and undemocratic religion shows striking similarities with the old discourse on Catholicism that predominated in Anglo-Protestant societies, particularly in the United States, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The essay draws some comparisons between old Catholic and current Muslim politics at three different levels: (1) at the level of the transnational structures of Catholicism and Islam as world religions; (2) at the level of religious political parties and movements in national politics; and (3) at related issues of immigrant incorporation of Catholics in Anglo-Protestant societies in the past and of Muslims in ”secular-Christian” Western societies today.

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