The scholarly interest in the relationship between modern politics and religion has been growing since the revolution in Iran in 1979, yet this field of study still lack a coherent terminology. Indeed, despite the apparent and current importance of the field there exist relative few seminal studies. The field is further divided into the history of religions, the sociology of religions, and the political sciences - all with terminologies of their own. My overall pursuit is to propose a terminology that rigorously provides a coherent terminology, wherein terms such as "theocracy", "religious politics", "mythic politics," and so forth get a semantically reasonable and consistent meaning. In constructing this, I pay special attention to the latest research on totalitarianism. This research has contributed with noteworthy observations about fascism and communism as "political religions", but at the same time suffers from a crude understanding of religion and an uncritical view of allegedly religious phenomena within liberal-capitalism. Yet, there are several lessons to be learned from it. I furthermore highlight the often forgotten sphere between governmental politics and personal faith - this is the sphere that revolves around culture as an arena for the struggle between religious edification and profane art. Finally, I give a tentative schematic proposal for how to related the modern political ideologies to three basic theological positions in modern society.