TY - JOUR
TI - Research Perspectives in Political Science of Religion
AU - Potz, Maciej
TI - Research Perspectives in Political Science of Religion
AB - 
	The article presents political science of religion as an explanatory framework of the political role of religion, grounded in political science. It proceeds from the critique of the prevailing legal and theological approaches as being normatively overloaded and failing to grasp the actual impact of religion on power relations, to formulating metatheoretical/methodological postulates of the political science of religion as an empirical subdiscipline of social science. It then proposes a multilevel approach to the study of the political role of religion. It consists of three distinct – but integrated – theoretical perspectives: the economic or transactional approach, grounded in rational choice theory and economic theories of religion; the social movements theory (SMT) approach, looking at the internal assets, organization and dynamics of religious actors; and the cultural/humanistic approach, exploring evolutionary, psychological and sociological determinants behind individual propensity to religion-inspired political mobilization. 
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 52, Issue 4
PY - 2019
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 277
EP - 291
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.19.020.11627
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/perspektywy-badawcze-w-politologii-religii
KW - political science of religion; transactional approach; Social Movements Theory