TY - JOUR ID - 35302 TI - MACHIAVELLI`S SECULARISM JO - POLITICAL QUARTERLY JA - JPQ LA - en SN - 1735-9678 AU - Hajinaseri, Said AU - Etesami, Massoud AD - Asistant Professor; Political Science Department, University of Tehran AD - PHD student of political thought in Institute for social and cultural studies Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 42 IS - 4 SP - 225 EP - 241 KW - Machiavelli KW - Republican Christianity KW - Viroli KW - Religion as instrument KW - Secularism DO - 10.22059/jpq.2012.35302 N2 - The discussion over a prominent thinker like Niccolo Machiavelli is like a neverendingstream. The proportion of modern thought to Christianity and the intellectualevolution of Secularism have their origins in Machiavelli`s thought. The explanationof this proportion has been accompanied by kinds of incoherences to the extent thathave put Machiavelli as the enemy of the religion or against that. Also Machiavelli`suse of religion as instrument is another reliable interpretation. That makes it everharder to comprehend Machiavelli`s ideas. This article tries to indicate some kindsof identity between Machiavelli`s thought and Christianity which can result in therecognition of the meaning of Secularism and such intellectual evolution through therepublican exegesis. UR - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_35302.html L1 - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_35302_9024a5089b11c69865ad0c11479199a7.pdf ER -