CULTURAL DEFENCE

CULTURAL DEFENCE

BRUCE sees one function of religion in todays world as cultural defence. This is where religion serves to unite a community against an external threat. In such situations , religion has special signifiance for its followers because it symbolises the groups or socities collective identity. Two examples of religion as cultural defence comes from Poland and Iran , they illistrate how religion can be used in defence of national identity in the face of political domination by an external power. In Poland , the external power was the…