Religion and Power - Karaman, Levent
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A nation can feel holy without a single priest. A platform can preach without a single scripture. This book reveals how rulers, movements, and media turn belief into power-how rituals synchronise crowds, how stories harden into law, and how symbols become the quiet machinery of consent. If you've ever wondered why religion and politics keep colliding, why civil religion feels unavoidably sacred, or how faith and propaganda travel so fast online, this is your field guide. - Understand the logic of political theology without jargon: the real deals between altars and thrones. - See empires and…mehr

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A nation can feel holy without a single priest. A platform can preach without a single scripture. This book reveals how rulers, movements, and media turn belief into power-how rituals synchronise crowds, how stories harden into law, and how symbols become the quiet machinery of consent. If you've ever wondered why religion and politics keep colliding, why civil religion feels unavoidably sacred, or how faith and propaganda travel so fast online, this is your field guide. - Understand the logic of political theology without jargon: the real deals between altars and thrones. - See empires and nations through a sharper lens-from Rome and the Christian empire to American religious politics and today's theocracy in the modern world. - Decode how movements weaponise identity in religion and nationalism, and why digital platforms now function like churches. Written for curious citizens, policy thinkers, journalists, and readers of serious history, it offers a portable model you can use anywhere-from city councils to newsfeeds. You'll learn how doctrine becomes discipline, how sacred calendars become political schedules, and how to test whether a law protects conscience or merely sanctifies control. By the last page, you won't just "spot bias"; you'll read power in liturgy, law, and code-and you'll know where to stand when belief asks for your loyalty.
Autorenporträt
Levent Karaman writes about the hidden machinery of global power - the ports and corridors that move goods, the rails that move money, and the standards that move consent. Raised between Europe and the Near East, he came to see empires not as borders on maps but as rules in systems, from the grain routes of antiquity to the fibre-optic lines of today. His work blends field notes from logistics hubs and markets with a historian's ear for cause and consequence, asking what ordinary people and practical leaders can do when the world will not stay in one piece. Karaman's aim is steady: to replace fatalism with craft, and to give readers a language for thinking and acting well in a century of many centres.