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After the Arab Spring

Michael Walzer
- 07 Mar 2014 - 
- Vol. 40, pp 421-429
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In this article, the authors look at a number of twentieth-century cases (and several eighteenth century cases) where religion and radical politics interacted, with very different results, and they ask whether there can be a democratic revolution and a religious revival in the same place, at the same time.
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In order to answer the question, Can there be a democratic revolution and a religious revival in the same place, at the same time?, I look at a number of twentieth-century cases (and several eighteenth-century cases) where religion and radical politics interacted – with very different results.

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