Article: Introduction: religion, politics, and the state, at home and abroad.

This special issue of the Sociology of Religion is a product of the Association for the Sociology of Religion's 2005 annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The papers are all drawn from the meeting's program and reflect its theme: "Religion, Politics, and the State, at Home and Abroad." For better and (mostly) for worse, it is hard to imagine a more timely topic than religion and politics in the current world. It is a rare day when even local newspapers do not run a front-page story that is rooted somehow in religion's impact upon or consequences for politics and the state. Here at home, recent stories have included the role of religion in major election and ...

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