ABSTRACT
With some considerations in hand about the nature of the political and the nature of belief, this chapter attempts to develop an account of which beliefs are political. In this account, for a belief to be political it must be in dispute and must either figure into practical reasoning about political action or be an important factor in the believer’s inclusion in or exclusion from some political group. In addition to giving some limit to the subject matter of the book, this account allows us to straightforwardly develop an account of politicization under which a belief can become politicized by becoming controversial, becoming relevant to reasoning about political action, or becoming an important factor for inclusion in or exclusion from political groups.
