Summary And Analysis: How Do Religious Interest Become Politically Significant?
Session Six Summary & Analysis: How do Religious interests become politically significant?
This question is the central theme of the session six. Chapter five of Religion and Politics depicted the basic element of crime theory (motive, means and opportunity) to provide a useful framework to help understand the ways that religion interacts with politics. The same context for studying a crime also works for studying religious mobilization in the political arena. Although religious mobilization is not a crime as the authors observed, this analogy is useful for understanding religious interests of the liberals, moderates, and conservatives. Before establishing the crime analogy to explain how religious interests interact with politics, the authors examined two distinctive steps by which religious interests begin the policy process. They are:
Articulation of the group’s grievance
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Religious organizations do have interests in the politics. However, they do so with much latent capacity as the authors observed.
Indeed, religious groups can influence by concealing their power under political party’s wings. The Tea Party movement is a perfect example, as Jon and Cox Research on Religion and the Tea Party revealed. This wing of the Republican Party, anti-tax, anti-big government, anti-aborting etc…. was in part responsible for the failure of the “Grand Bargain.” The Grand Bargain refers to a potential agreement between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders in 2012 on how to control spending and decrease the national debt. The most challenging aspect of the bargain was to avoid sequestration or the fiscal cliff for the year 2013 on some of the most important programs in the United States. However, with high polarized House and Senate it was not an easy task for lawmakers to work together in avoiding the sequestration
This question is the central theme of the session six. Chapter five of Religion and Politics depicted the basic element of crime theory (motive, means and opportunity) to provide a useful framework to help understand the ways that religion interacts with politics. The same context for studying a crime also works for studying religious mobilization in the political arena. Although religious mobilization is not a crime as the authors observed, this analogy is useful for understanding religious interests of the liberals, moderates, and conservatives. Before establishing the crime analogy to explain how religious interests interact with politics, the authors examined two distinctive steps by which religious interests begin the policy process. They are:
Articulation of the group’s grievance
…show more content…
Religious organizations do have interests in the politics. However, they do so with much latent capacity as the authors observed.
Indeed, religious groups can influence by concealing their power under political party’s wings. The Tea Party movement is a perfect example, as Jon and Cox Research on Religion and the Tea Party revealed. This wing of the Republican Party, anti-tax, anti-big government, anti-aborting etc…. was in part responsible for the failure of the “Grand Bargain.” The Grand Bargain refers to a potential agreement between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders in 2012 on how to control spending and decrease the national debt. The most challenging aspect of the bargain was to avoid sequestration or the fiscal cliff for the year 2013 on some of the most important programs in the United States. However, with high polarized House and Senate it was not an easy task for lawmakers to work together in avoiding the sequestration