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Religion and Politics : Should they influence each other or should they be viewed independently

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Introduction

In the world today , there are several pillars of trivial issues that hold it together in spite of the several challenges . Issues like humanitarianism , peacekeeping , politics , religion , international negotiations or even conflict resolution have been on the frontline of such important tenets . However , the ever growing influence of politics and religion since time immemorial has made it one of the most outspoken subjects

of all time with much spotlight being continuously placed on these two twin ' issues

Epley (40-48 ) articulates that the advancements in both religion and politics have astoundingly shot sky high over the recent times . This has led to an increased interest of scholars and researchers in issues to deal with religion and politics . As of today , a wide range of researches have been conducted to this effect and several volumes of academic material written so as to clearly define the relationship between the two aforementioned precepts

In a different study , Lerman supports Epley 's sentiments by saying that most of these researches tend to focus on the relationship between religion and politics with much emphasis being made on how the two can concurrently run together . He however goes ahead and opines that in as much as such studies have been quite informative , very little has been done by these researchers to fundamentally outline the elementary issue of whether the two should be interrelated...