ABSTRACT
Defining ‘political cultures’ is at least as difficult and controversial as defining religions. It is therefore necessary to begin by abandoning all claims to objectivity and declare unambiguously how religion and political culture are addressed in this short chapter. By ‘political cultures’ we mean, in a broad sense, the codification of politics, both from an intellectual perspective and from an administrative, juridical and institutional point of view. Religion – that is, popular beliefs in a higher (or divine) reality which determines and dominates the lower (or human) reality – is essentially considered herein as a social fact.
