The Land of an Appropriated God
The Land of an Appropriated God

Sacred Political Symbols and Symbolic Political Sacrality

Author(s): György Gábor
Subject(s): Politics and religion, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: political career;Orbán;Church – state relations;Hungary;
Summary/Abstract: In December 2005, Viktor Orbán participated in an Advent conversation with Béla Balás, bishop of Kaposvár and Zoltán Balog, a Calvinist pastor (today Minister of Human Resources), where he talked about his own faith, his commitment to Christianity, his political mission, and also touched on topics like the fear of God, religious life, the relationship between government and Church, and the Church as an absolute standard of values, revealing to the audience his ars poetica as a politician and a leader.

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