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The Two Faces of Religion

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Ulrich Beck

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God needs no passport, argues Peggy Levitt.

This essay tries to summarize my complex argument in A God of One’s Own: Religion’s Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence.

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    This text was first published by Ulrich Beck: “The Two Faces of Religion”, in: Janez Juhant and Bojan Žalec (Eds.): Art of Life: Origins, Foundations and Perspectives (Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2010): 17–30. Permission to republish this text was granted by Ms. Isabel Opatz on behalf of LIT-Verlag.

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  1. Institute of Sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

    Ulrich Beck

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Beck, U. (2014). The Two Faces of Religion. In: Beck, U. (eds) Ulrich Beck. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04990-8_11

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