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But this is, in effect, the narrow definition of "politics" as pertaining exclusively to state and government, alongside which I set mine broader definition, according to which, following the paradigm of Gamwell's definition, I could say that politics refers to any activities having to do with creating, maintaining, and/or transforming social and cultural structures and the process by which these activities are decided or determined  (cf. The Point of Christology: 95 f.). 

these activities are decided or determined"; and the 
"state" as "that association whose identifying purpose is to order or govern 
the pursuit of purposes in the community and