Political theology: from Luther to Liberation
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https://doi.org/10.26247/theophany.3009Abstract
It is an undeniable truth that religious faith constitutes a social phenomenon, influencing both the sphere of public policy and the domain of the institutional formation of social life. This holds true even in the contemporary period of late modernity, wherein religions are transformed into «functional substitutes». Furthermore, the return of religions—as emphasized in sociological research (regardless of whether they were ever truly absent)—emerges as a response to the contemporary reality of socio-economic insecurity, the threats of cultural homogenization driven by globalization, and existential vacuum and anxiety (Kotsiopoulos, 2020). Western modernization was convincing in its capacity to protect nature, human life, and social order, and the same time religion was «in retreat»! Now that such a persuasive capacity has ceased to be strong, religions are returning to the forefront, offering to function as means for the «prevention and management of crises» thereby acting as «functional substitutes for politics» (Georgiadou, 2007: 63).
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