From Co-optation to Traditionalist Campaigns: Authoritarian Responses to Non-state Religious Actors

• In Event: Managing Religion and Moral Authority: Between Authoritarian Maintenance and Empowering Dissent

Brief Overview

This paper explores why authoritarian regimes instrumentalize tradition and advances that regimes respond with more of such policies in order to combat the degree of moral authority religious traditionalists have claimed over time.

Author

• Marika Sofia Olijar, University of Wisconsin–Madison