Rethinking religion and world affairs
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Rethinking religion and world affairs
Oxford University Press, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. Rethinking Religion and World Affairs seeks to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship. Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, this volume will form the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interconnections of religion and global politics.
These essays grapple with puzzles, issues and questions concerning religion and world affairs in six major areas. Contributors critically revisit the "secularization thesis, " which proclaimed the steady erosion of religion's public presence as an effect of modernization; explore the relationship between religion, democracy, and the juridico-political discourse of human rights; assess the role of religion in fomenting, ameliorating, and redressing violent conflict; and consider the value of
religious beliefs, actors, and institutions to the delivery of humanitarian aid and the fostering of socio-economic development. Later chapters address the representation of religion in the expanding global media landscape, the unique place of religion in American foreign policy, and the dilemmas it
presents.
Rethinking Religion and World Affairs will become an invaluable resource for professional and emerging scholars, journalists, policy makers, diplomats, and others concerned in their personal or professional capacities with religion and international affairs.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' Introduction: Religion and World Affairs: Blurring the Boundaries - Timothy Samuel Shah, Alfred Stepan, and Monica Duffy Toft
- Part 1: Religion, Secularism, and Secularization
- 1. Why Religion? Why Now? - J. Bryan Hehir
- 2. Rethinking Public Religions - Jose Casanova
- 3. The Politics of Secularism - Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- Part 2: Religion, Democracy, and Human Rights
- 4. Religion, Democracy, and the <"Twin Tolerations>": Reconciling Political Freedom and Religious Autonomy - Alfred Stepan
- 5. How Should States Deal with Deep Religious Diversity: Can Anything Be Learnt from the Indian Model of Secularism? - Rajeev Bhargava
- 6. Rethinking Islam and Democracy - Robert W. Hefner
- 7. Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights - John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green
- Part 3: Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking
- 8. Religion, Terrorism, and Civil Wars - Monica Duffy Toft
- 9. What Religion Contributes to the Politics of Transitional Justice - Daniel Philpott
- Part 4: Religion, Humanitarianism, and Civil Society
- 10. Where Is the Religion? Humanitarianism, Faith, and World Affairs - Michael Barnett
- 11. Faith, Gender, and International Relations - Katherine Marshall
- 12. Religion and Development - Katherine Marshall
- 13. Interreligious Dialogue and International Relations - Thomas Banchoff
- Part 5: Religion and the Media
- 14. Islam and the Promenades of Global Media - Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Nichole J. Allem
- 15. Old Monks, New Media, and the Limits of Soulcraft: A Case Study of Burma's 2007 Saffron Revolution - Diane Winston
- Part 6: Religion and American Foreign Policy
- 16. God's Country? American Evangelicals and US Foreign Policy - Walter Russell Mead
- 17. America's International Religious Freedom Policy - Thomas F. Farr
- 18. Navigating in the Fog: Improving US Government Engagement with Religion - Frederick D. Barton, Shannon Hayden, and Karin von Hippel
- Appendix: Internet Resource Guide - M. Christian Green with Nicole Greenfield
- Index
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