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Есть ли связь между религией и политикой? Анализируя опыт Северной Америки и Европы
Article is devoted to studying of relationship between religion and politics. The author uses a conceptual framework of the theory of social cleavages and focuses attention on connection between religious groups and their party preferences. Three types of religious cleavages are allocated in work on the basis of the analysis of foreign researches: clerical-secular, inter-confessional, intra-confessional. Consideration of specifics of religious cleavages on materials of various countries allows tracking certain regularities and communications between political preferences and some characteristics of religiosity. Also features of interaction of religious cleavages and the political sphere are opened in work. Accentuation of attention on features allows understanding: why connection of religion and policy are shown not in all countries, why the existing communications can be transformed and not join the existing conception and why religious delimitation is steady.