Spirituality and Power Strategies in a Postmodern Situation

The current research is about the relationship between spirituality and political power strategies. Therefore, this article examines this relationship in the form of three traditional, modern and postmodern discourses. In the traditional era, spirituality is not an independent and distinct reality of religions, and political power in this discourse has it’s perfectly legitimacy to apply the rules of religion. In the modern age, following the secularization processes, not only spirituality but also religions have lost their place as sources of action and the legitimacy of political power. Even under the modern formulation, militant secularism does not only eradicate religion from the political and social point of view, but also militant It as exemplified by the policy of communist governments towards religions. In the postmodern era, spiritual poverty has led to a social decline and psychological crisis on one hand, and it has become a concern for capitalism, production and accumulation of capital on the other hand. This has led power strategies to encourage and disseminate some spiritualties that are more in line with the form and purpose of political power.