Religion and Politics

Abstract

The subject of the article are relations obtaining between two important domains of culture, namely religion and politics. The relations are investigated in the historical and systematic perspectives.

It is possible to distinguish in the history of our culture three types of relations of religion to politics:
1. Domination of politics over religion or vice versa,
2. Attempts of legal regulations of the coexistence of religion and politics,
3. Acknowledging the autonomy of both domains, with two tendencies:
a) a negative tendency of eliminating religion from politics,
b) a positive tendency of cooperation for the common good, i.e. for the man.
The author justifies her thesis that the character of the relation obtaining between religion and politics ultimately depends on the concept of man and on the understanding of the nature and functions of politics.