Religion and its political metamorphosis

Abstract

Religious practice and political action are two very similar and deeply interconnected activities of the human spirit. Their link goes beyond mere functional, practical or surface coincidences: they spring from a common root, from the human need for the absolute and the precariousness of existence, and for that reason they are necessarily related and similar, in such a way that the modern division of them as two opposing fields of the spirit, as separable as water and oil, is alien to any pre-modern or traditional society.