Traditionalism
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In the twenty-first century, it has become common again—in the US as much as in India—to invoke religious reasons for political decisions, and to appeal to sacred scriptures or dogma as sources of secular authority. Religion is seen as a framework constituted of immediately applicable, non-problematic rules: prohibitions for food and sexuality, imposed social hierarchies,…
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οὐ δεῖ παραδόσεσιν ἀνθρώπων ἀκολουθεῖν ἐπ’ ἀθετήσει ἐντολῆς Θεοῦ (Basil the Great, Moralia XII, 2) How is it possible that Christianity, a Galilean insurrectionary movement fighting against political oppression and religious corruption through spiritual transformation, has turned into the political ideology of a dominantly Western, conservative, and right-winged population? What is the historical development that…
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