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/ Table of Contents -- I Zur Theorie der Religion / Sociological Theories of Religion -- Ursprung, Funktion und Gehalt der Religion -- Asceticism and Mysticism. A Contribution towards the Sociology of Faith -- Systemanalyse und »Religiöse Bedürfnisse« -- Ursachen der Bewahrung der Religiosität des Kolchose-Bauern -- Religious Motives in Religious Movements -- II Religion und Sprache / Religion and Language -- In the Beginning was the Word. The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches -- Some Forms of Religious Discourse -- The Function of Dialects in the Religious Life of the Bornholm Inhabitants -- Protestant Preachers in the Prophetic Line.

Religion and politics have depended on and influenced one another since the origins of what we know as Latin America. Their relation is both mutual and multifaceted; mutual because religion and politics have evolved together over the years, taking material and symbolic support from one another, and multifaceted because it embraces interinstitutional conflict and accommodation (e.g., the "church-state" relations which dominated earlier scholarship) as well as more subtle and elusive exchanges whereby religious and political orders gave legitimacy and moral authority to one another. In this process, religious notions of hierarchy, authority, and obedience reflected and reinforced the pattern of existing social and political arrangements to such an extent that the two orders often seemed indistinguishable.