The Transformation of Politicised Religion

Elsenhans, Hartmut; Ouaissa, Rachid; Tétreault, Mary Ann

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“…Where state-led attempts at overcoming underdevelopment have failed, the political and moral discredit of the old, mostly secular, state classes has led to the rise of new cultural identitarian movements which present their own versions of capitalism through moral economy [Elsenhans (2012); Elsenhans, Ouaissa, Schwecke, and Tétreault (2015)]. The arguments of these movements may vary, but they uniformly set limits against the accumulation of wealth, the (over-)exploitation of labour, and the discretionary power of the owners of property.…”

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Reconstructing Development Economics: Overcoming Rent for Constructing Capitalism

Elsenhans¹

2022

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The purpose of the following article is to show that for its survival capitalism requires expanding mass incomes and that the dominant interpretation of growth relying on ever increasing shares of the rich in national income is misguided. Capitalism is an achievement involuntarily imposed by the poor onto the rich of society. The rich gain wealth by a large variety of means, very often not by the discipline capitalism requires and imposes through competition. The article concentrates on two aspects: the conditions of making expanding mass incomes the basis of capitalist transition in not yet capitalist underdeveloped economies, and the importance of such a transition for maintaining capitalism at the global level where a globalisation of rent against globalisation of profit is the intention of the forces of capital. Therefore many other very relevant aspects of the theoretical model can only be shortly outlined.

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Reconstructing Development Economics: Overcoming Rent for Constructing Capitalism

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2022

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“…In many postcolonial societies, religion continued to remain a powerful source of political and social legitimacy. In parallel to rising power of religious identity-based political movements, especially after the 1970s, the co-optation and accommodation of religious institutions and discourses became a major source of power for both democratic and authoritarian regimes (Elsenhans, Ouaissa, Schwecke, & Tétreault, 2015). In this respect, many postcolonial governments, acting out of concerns for political stability and electoral certainty-and occasionally out of sincere desire for multiculturalism-opted to accommodate demands for pluri-legal personal law systems (Sezgin, 2004).…”

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The Unification of Law and the Postcolonial State

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Sezgin

2016

American Behavioral Scientist

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The article analyzes the evolution of state law pluralism in the field of personal status law in India and Indonesia in the postcolonial era. Having inherited pluri-legal personal law systems from their colonial patrons, postindependence leaders in both countries vowed to eliminate and replace pluri-legal arrangements by uniform civil law systems that would not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, custom, or religion. Despite their attempts at legal unification from the 1940s to 1960s, however, both nations today exhibit high degrees of state law pluralism in personal law. We show that plans for legal unification were abandoned in both countries in the 1970s, and that the turn away from legal unification was mostly driven by concerns of political stability and electoral politics, not, as is often argued in the literature, due to state incapacity or ideological reorientations on part of the ruling elite.

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“…Leur échec a ouvert le champ politique aux nationalistes culturels, organisés en un nouveau mouvement politique, après avoir été mis à l'écart dans la phase finale de la décolonisation, à la fois par les nationalistes laïcs et les puissances coloniales. Les nationalistes culturels ont réussi à se placer à la direction de larges alliances d'opposition(Elsenhans, Ouaissa, Schwecke, Tétreault 2015). Au-delà des idéologues stricto sensu du nationalisme culturel, ces alliances comprennent la petite entreprise, souvent commerciale et toujours méfiante à l'égard de l'interventionnisme étatique, des vagues de nouvelles classes moyennes non propriétaires de moyens de production mais munies de diplômes du secondaire et du supérieur, sans perspectives d'emploi.…”

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The Transformation of Politicised Religion

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Reconstructing Development Economics: Overcoming Rent for Constructing Capitalism

Reconstructing Development Economics: Overcoming Rent for Constructing Capitalism

The Unification of Law and the Postcolonial State

Development by Free Trade? Développement à travers le libre-échange?

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