Mode of production can assign dominance to politics or religion in different epochs

Evidence

Nevertheless, as we look across the modern and developing worlds, we see the extraordinary diversity of the roles which religious formations have actually played. We also see the extraordinary cultural and ideological vitality which religion has given to certain popular social movements. That is to say, in particular social formations, where religion has become the valorized ideological domain, the domain into which all the different cultural strands are obliged to enter, no political movement in that society can become popular without negotiating the religious terrain. Social movements have to transform it, buy into it, inflect it, develop it, clarify it—but they must engage with it. You can’t create a popular political movement in such social formations without getting into the religious question, because it is the arena in which this community has come to a certain kind of consciousness. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 739 (#expands, via linked claim)

If the plebeians had contended that election was enough and that the approval by the goddess was not necessary, they would have derived the fullest benefit from the political right which they had obtained. But they did not. They agreed to elect another, less suitable to themselves but more suitable to the goddess—which in fact meant more amenable to the patricians. Rather than give up religion, the plebeians gave up the material gain for which they had fought so hard. Does this not show that religion can be a source of power as great as money, if not greater? — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 850 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Religion, social status, and property each dominate as power sources at different historical stages (similarity 0.82)
• Economic determination can assign dominance to politics or religion in an epoch (similarity 0.82)
• Religious worship may have driven the agricultural revolution rather than resulting from it. (similarity 0.79)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (similarity 0.79)
• Religion, social status, and property are alternative sources of power across stages (similarity 0.79)
• Economic dominance does not automatically translate into political rule (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• English agrarian capitalism disciplined church, monarchy, and masses in turn #exemplifies (0.70)
• Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. #expands (0.65) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 739
• Religion can override political rights and material gains when believers hold it inviolable #exemplifies (0.60) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 850
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #qualifies (0.55)