International Studies Journal (ISJ)

International Studies Journal (ISJ)

The Selective Proximity between Religion, People, and the State in America

Document Type : Extension Article

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Assistant Professor of Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in Allameh Tabatabee University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Religion is a social phenomenon in America. Religious values coincide with civil attitudes is society. Therefore religion has a political status that is the result of religion's social function and its worldly characteristics. Religious attitudes and its framework heavily influence the social capital where citizens realize their commitments and duties. In this regard, we are witnessing a triangle shaped by citizens, the government and religion. The concurrence of these three phenomena is rooted in the selective and conscious proximity among them.
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