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Title:Ideology, Political Religion and Modernization: Some Theoretical and Empirical Explorations
Author:Jinadu, L. Adele
Year:1976
Periodical:African Studies Review
Volume:19
Issue:1
Period:April
Pages:119-137
Language:English
Geographic terms:Tanzania
Africa
Subjects:political ideologies
socialism
ujamaa
Politics and Government
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/523855
Abstract:The author offers a textual analytical critique of Apter's theoretical speculations on the links between ideology and political religion on the one hand and ideology and modernization on the other. He puts forward his own views concerning the role of ideology in the modernization process. Second, the author examines the uses of ideology in Tanzania in the light of his own theoretical speculations on the links between ideology and modernization. He proposes the thesis that ideology, political religion, and modernization are concerned and connected with the management of culture and culture change. Sections: Apter on modernization - Ideology and modernization - Political religion and modernization - Ideology and modernization: some theoretical explorations - Ideology and modernization: some empirical explorations from the Tanzania case. Notes; ref.
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