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What has religion to do with community, state and nation? If we could clarify this satisfactorily we would contribute greatly to the understanding of society in general, whatever the predominant religion and whatever the social structure, for religious or similar ideologies have until the present featured in all known human societies. Religion is indeed not a solitary but a social phenomenon; even the hermit is what he is by reference to a larger society.
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Solomon, N. (1991). Religion, Community and State. In: Judaism and World Religion. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12069-7_5
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